Covid-19, beautiful weather, time to cleanup the workshop.
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Category: 05 – Miscellaneous
New compressor
My 22 year old compressor started moving around in my workshop. Something’s not right here.
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Primer / corrosion experiment [after 20 months]
Update on the prime corrosion experiment.
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Torque vs tension
After digging a bit more into bolts and nuts a learned that torque isn’t tension.
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Tension test AN3 and NAS6603 bolts
I was curious about how strong the aviation grade bolts are. With help from the University in Delft at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering I did some tension tests.
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Workshop clean up
To make room for the wing tables I cleaned up a bit and dismantled the wooden crates.
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Changed the paint booth filters
After 16 months it was time to change the paint booth filters.
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Primer / corrosion experiment [after 3 months]
Update on the primer and corrosion experiment.
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Primer / corrosion experiment [after 1 month]
A month ago I started a primer / corrosion experiment, after 1 month it’s time to review the experiment.
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Primer / corrosion experiment
Since my first investigation about primers in September 2016 I still have some questions about the different kind of primers and prepping the aluminium. Therefore I started a small experiment with different kind of aluminium, degreasers, primers and a final 2K paint.
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