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Old 12-09-2004 | 10:39 PM
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IowaSilvia
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Default Know when to quit!!!

What a day. Started out great. UPS dropped off 2 Bambulas for my FPE 2.4. I mounted it and ran it. All went well until the horizontal stab. slammed into my calf and took a 4" piece of the l.e. out. So I repaired that and now need to cover it. Then I decide to put radio equipment in an older spray plane so I can fly it. It is a beautiful bird with little to no air time. I had it up on my plastic saw horse made to hold planes while installing stuff. I went to my wood pile to get some hardwood for mounting the servos and while I was looking for wood I hear this bang. Looked up and SH*T the plane fell off the saw horse. Busted off the tail feathers and busted the elevator in half. So now I need to pull back all sheeting to fix the tail section and assess the damage. While doing this I just decide that I would just recover the whole thing anyways. I begin to disasemble the tail section and was taking the pins out of the hinges with the tip of my xacto knife when the knife cracked and my hand flew back and my finger caught the busted part of the knife. Severing my finger a half inch long by about 1/4" deep.

Well needless to say that someone must be telling me to quit.

I really need encouragement. I almost took that plane and tossed it accross the basement, but knew that would not be a good way to let my anger out.

What do you guys do when you have a crap day like this and it seems like your planes hate you?

Oh here are pics of the spray plane. What color should I cover it in? I really like the color now. Maybe I'll find the same color and just recover the fuse.
what do you guys think.
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