Short night for plane work today.  Yesterday, I countersunk the main and rear spar holes in preparation to rivet the wing skins and leading edge on.  All I had left to do today was to do some touch-up primer work on the rear spar rivet countersinks.

I had bought this self-contained paint sprayer a while back to try it for touch up work.  This way I wouldn't have to break out the air hoses, spray gun, yada, yaadda, yaadda stuff to do a little touch-up work.

I mixed the epoxy primer directly in the bottom of the Preval sprayer, waited my 30 minutes and touched up the holes on the rear spar.  Took all of about 10 minutes.

PREVAL SPRAY GUN OPINION:  This actually worked fairly well.  It is not a HVLP spray gun by any means, but it sprayed the AKZO epoxy primer and I got pretty good atomization of the primer.  This thing is supposed to spray up to 16 oz of paint.  Tonight I sprayed around 2 oz of primer.  Clean up was quick and easy.  A little acetone in the jar, rinse, a little more acetone in the jar and spray through the nozzle, put the thing away.  If the nozzle stays clear and shoots the next time I need to do touch-up, I will be pretty happy with the sprayer and would buy it again. Spraying a small amount of primer with this sprayer made for a quick and painless operation.  (EVERYTHING IS QUICK AND PAINLESS AFTER PLAYING WITH TANK SEALANT!!!)

This is not a real good picture, but you can see that it pretty much covered the countersink with primer.

Last but not least for tonights work in the garage, I ran fishing line and the plumb bobs again to make sure that the wing was still in the stand straight with no twists.  Amazingly enough, it didn't move at all.  I think that I am ready to start riveting parts on the main spar tomorrow.  Where's my wife hiding now, I need my bucking partner???

Spent some time tonight making our hotel reservations for Airventure.  I said after attending last year that I would make our hotel reservations early so that we wouldn't have to drive so far each day.  Well, it is almost July 1st and I still hadn't made our reservations.  I didn't do to badly considering, I was able to find rooms in Beaver Dam (approx. 40 miles).  Last year, we had to drive 70+ miles.  I checked rooms in Oshkosh in January and they were already booked up.  Next year, I will reserve our rooms early...  (YEAH RIGHT !!!!)

We are planning on attending Airventure July 29-30.  All I could talk my wife into was two days.  I am on a mission this year.  Last year, I hadn't even decided on a kit.  This year we are going to look for tools, instruments, and engines (just to name a few).

If any builders reading this are going to be at AirVenture at the same time and want to try and hook-up, I will leave info on the home page before we leave (I am in the process of changing cell phone providers and don't have my new number yet).  I always enjoy meeting builders and putting faces with names.