tweiss
Active Member
With the excitement of all the assembling, I have not made any effort to start and regularly update the progress of my build on this site.
I have thoroughly enjoyed following along with so many of you folks and your building experiences I thought it was time to pay it forward if you will with my build.
A quick story of about me getting started. Last fall through my friends and kids, we gave my wife the opportunity to be the airport hero and get me an -8 tail kit for my birthday. Well when my birthday was done she didn't come through with my thoughtful gift. But she didn't exactly say no either. She just felt she wasn't capable of making all the decisions that come with ordering such a thing.
So...... with all my best intentions, last February I thought it would be a great idea to get her an -8 tail kit for her birthday.
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And the rest is history.
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I've since lived that very exciting day of opening the boxes.
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Inventorying the contents.
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And clecoing parts together and taking them back apart, over and over again. Great fun!
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Now anchoring off of VAF, I found so much helpful stuff here in regards to building the tail kit that I won't go into too much detail on every step along my tail build. I studied so many builders logs and posts prior to begining my kit that I knew where to pause and take a breath when I got to the problem areas. Plus I found a few areas challanging to me that seemed to be no big deal to others, so as I bring my tail build up to speed, I'll try to comment on those areas mostly and not drag out "another" tail build.
Well I'm glad I got this started tonight and look forward to making small updates daily (hopeful) until I get this caught up to my current build progress.
Good night.
Tom
I have thoroughly enjoyed following along with so many of you folks and your building experiences I thought it was time to pay it forward if you will with my build.
A quick story of about me getting started. Last fall through my friends and kids, we gave my wife the opportunity to be the airport hero and get me an -8 tail kit for my birthday. Well when my birthday was done she didn't come through with my thoughtful gift. But she didn't exactly say no either. She just felt she wasn't capable of making all the decisions that come with ordering such a thing.
So...... with all my best intentions, last February I thought it would be a great idea to get her an -8 tail kit for her birthday.
And the rest is history.
I've since lived that very exciting day of opening the boxes.
Inventorying the contents.
And clecoing parts together and taking them back apart, over and over again. Great fun!
Now anchoring off of VAF, I found so much helpful stuff here in regards to building the tail kit that I won't go into too much detail on every step along my tail build. I studied so many builders logs and posts prior to begining my kit that I knew where to pause and take a breath when I got to the problem areas. Plus I found a few areas challanging to me that seemed to be no big deal to others, so as I bring my tail build up to speed, I'll try to comment on those areas mostly and not drag out "another" tail build.
Well I'm glad I got this started tonight and look forward to making small updates daily (hopeful) until I get this caught up to my current build progress.
Good night.
Tom