I was able to work on the left side door today.  Removed the rest of the red/blue/creme paint.

I power washed the wheel pants, too.  The insides look better but there are a lot of dents to remove.

Here’s a short video of the bird stuff in the stab.

The link above will take you to YouTube.

Wow, lots of bird nests in the horizontal stab!  Marie and I power washed the rudder, elevators, and the horizontal stab all afternoon, cleaning out lots of nesting material.  The good news is I didn’t see any corrosion on first glance.  I will use a light and mirror tomorrow and see what’s going on inside.

Also I have some video to post of the nesting material.

Two items to watch for on our trip to Oshkosh this year, the Starter and the Carburetor.

Starter is a Delco 1109651

Carb is a Marvel MA-4-5

But still get to hang around old airplanes.  An OX-5 Jenny engine and a Curtiss Jenny hanging from the ceiling in Dallas, TX.

A simple item that didn’t take much time to do but needs to be done.

I found some paint stripper from work that will easily remove paint so I tried it tonight and all six cans clogged up!  Not my evening so I quit for the night.  However, one can worked for a while and I was able to remove some paint.  It’s a start.

The only damage to the fuselage that I can find is a crease in one of the support tubes.  It has not cracked through so it will be an easy fix.

I can use FAA AC43.13-1B to make a repair by using the welded patch repair process.

After unwrapping the old fabric I found the fuselage N numbers.   They are extremely brittle but I think they can be saved.  I’ve cleaned them up and hung them to see if the wrinkles will come out.