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My Great Lakes 2T-1A-2 Rebuild Diary 2009.
I purchased my Great Lakes restoration project on 12th June
2007 in Phoenix, Arizona USA. This is my restoration project
diary for 2008I will update it almost daily to show the project
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December 2009
No work on the Great Lakes this month as Jo and I head off for a long break in Australia.September 2009
Lots of problems! The paint on the last wing - last side - has problems. After some advise I have a solution to fix the problem but have missed my weather window so no more fabric spraying this year now.
Lots of paint stripping. Most of it again on the cowl, however I had to give up on the manual method as It appears I have badly damaged my shoulder. So I purchase an air sander, which I should have done it at the start as it made very quick work of taking all the paint off. Then I purchased another sander to polish up the surface.
Lots of paint stripping. There are lots of layers of very old paint so stripping off has taken lots of effort and lots and lots of stripper. Cleaning the welds around the interplane struts has been time consuming as you cannot use abrasive materials.
The upper wings are now painted white. White is in part of the design and it gives a good base for the darker colours on top.
![]() ![]() March to 03-April-09
April has just arrived and I have now progressed to top coat. Not sure how many pictures I will post at this time as I would like to keep the finished design and colour a suprise for when my Lakes is more complete.March-2009
The weather here in the UK has killed off any progress with the covering of my Great Lakes since December - it's now March and I have been able to get back into the workshop and start work again on the fabric work. As it's mainly spraying silver, more silver and some silver I am not planning to post lots of similar pictures! |
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