So, it's been a week since I paid the final amount due for the wings and paid for the tail section. Over the last few days I've received electronic receipts for the payments and today an invoice applying the tail kit payment to the actual order of a tail kit. I have not heard anything about the wing kit. The last letter stated "once that payment has been received and processed, your kit should be shipped in 5-10 days." I'm beginning to suspect that 'received' means that it hit their bank but 'processed' means that someone has made an association between the influx of cash and a specific order. In other words, they haven't processed it yet so the "5-10 days" probably hasn't started yet.
In other news, the RV-12 is getting its first condition inspection by someone other than me. It's been 10 years of flying and I didn't feel up to doing all of the labor to perform the Rotax mandated 5-year replacement of all of the rubber components in the engine. In addition, I'm a subscriber to Mike Busch's philosophy that strict time-based replacements often induce more maintenance failures than they prevent. That's especially true for me with respect to pulling parts off the engine that I haven't ever touched since building. The other reason I hired a professional shop is that I want someone else to inspect her for me because I'm not a professional A&P and I don't know what I don't know I'm looking at. I really want a professional 2nd opinion of the condition of my plane with respect to its being in condition for safe operation.
Here she is in the hangar at Burlington Municipal Airport, Wisconsin (KBUU). Hopefully I'll have 8 hours off during good weather to go get her when it's done.
I also overcame a mental roadblock of 'paralysis by analysis' with respect to migrating my tools from the hangar to the garage. I kept getting mentally stalled by not being able to figure out which tools to move and where to store things until I knew when the wing kit was going to arrive. I started the process by realizing that it was OK to buy a new rolling tool cart rather than move the one I have. Now I can start cleaning up loose tools in the garage and put them into the tool cart. That will free up some storage racks in the garage which I can ... You get the picture. I find that once I get something started, I typically can keep up good momentum. Here's the first picture of the modification of the garage; said new rolling tool cart, a recycled kitchen table and a migrated work table from the hangar.
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