A Good 4th of July

Today I got some stuff to run new lights in the garage, and I also stopped by Harbor Freight and picked up the 30" bending brake and some clamps. I spent the rest of the afternoon wiring up the lights, and realized that I will need a few more. At least now I have a well lit workbench.

I needed to finish my form backing block so I cut that out with my jig saw and sanded it down. I have had really good luck with my Harbor freight belt sander so far. Once I had it sanded down I clamped the two together and started drilling my jig pin holes. That is as far as I made it today.

Harbor Freight 30" Bending Brake w/ two c-clamps

Slight set back for hammering over flanges

Drilling jig pin holes

EAA workbenches

It seems like a right of passage for home builders to build workbenches for their project therefore I, too, built my EAA workbenches. It took about 4 hours and about $100 in lumber.

 I am brainstorming about a wall mounted drop down drafting table to hold my plans. 

Got my plans today!!!

This is what you get when you open the box. 

From left to right: envelope, bear tracks card, picture, Mylar wing rib plan,

Bearhawk book (compilation of Beartracks newsletters), packing slip, plans. 

I am still in the process of getting The Factory set up how I want it, but I will post as I go along. It is supposed to be very frigid here in East Texas so I will use my indoor time to build some EAA workbenches. 

I have ordered an 18x24 portfolio to hold all the plans so I can flip thru them page by page, but until it gets here I got this artwork folder to hold them and flatten them out a little.