Fuselage: blasting and painting

I spent a little time building some shelves to help organize the parts bins that I've been unpacking from the MN to NH move.

Also reorganized the existing shelving to allow for some things like wheels and brakes to be picked up off the floor.

After that, I finished stripping down the fuselage that will be sand-blasted. I removed any brackets that were still attached, cleaned of old anti-chafe tape and removed anything else that would make sand blasting more difficult.

Then loaded the tubular fuselage into the trailer with the two engine mounts and brought them to the sand blaster in North Hampton, NH.

When the sand blasting was complete,

I brought it to Tom Ford's paint booth at his private strip in Loudon NH.  We mixed up the epoxy primer and painted the fuselage and both engine mounts.

The rotisserie worked perfectly for painting.

The paint will cure for about a week in the warm paint booth. I'll then bring it home and do a trial fit of the landing gear.