I surprized myself and located the original can of paint used to paint the body of my MR-1. I gave it a couple of light coats which covered the epoxy and a few other dings and called it done.
I swear it looks better in person than it does in these pics.
There's a Big Foot loose in your garage, look at the floor in front of the chair. Third picture. :shock:
At this point I need to 'fess up to a blunder. My thought was that the inner fillets did not need to be pretty and I was kind of messy applying them. This led to later problems in getting the aft centering ring back in place. I ground the blobs down as best I could but the ring still wouldn't go in. I used a sander to remove more from the outside and my finger with some sandpaper to work on the inside. It helped but not enough. Then I got the bonehead idea of forcing it. I used a rubber headed mallet to get it started and it did start. It was also aparent that it was never coming out again. I was commited. Then I got dumber. I placed the handle pieces of a pair of piers on the fing and rapped the other end with the mallet. This drove the ring down but also split the wood. It wasn't split enought to be removed but it was pretty awful looking.
Don't feel like an idiot on this one. I did the same stupid thing. I call it stupid because I had planned to get that epoxy out of the way before mounting the aft centering ring and get a good pre-fit but forgot to do any of it. I was literally up against the dry epoxy and the 5 minute setting epoxy already in place. After hammering away at it, I got a pretty good fit. I was worried that I'd break the tube but it didn't. Not w/o some splittage on the CR of course. And I did the same "make up" application you did after it was set.
Doesn't anyone have any comments/advice about my lug idea?
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