The Peril and her new life

krautman67 · Post by **krautman67** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 8:51 am

Now you get to work on a brand-new M4! No doubt you will wear latex gloves for all work from this point on. You may also have to enforce the footwear sterile booty policy in your assembly facility for all visitors. The entitlement dog will require a paw-wipe on each entry, he/she may initially reject the new smell, even give you the stink-eye. All jagged edges of doors, struts, gear, flaps will need some padding or tape during installation to protect that yellow!
May I suggest looking at your landing gear fwd attach bolts for warping. Mine were bent about 10 degrees, but I have had some "memorable" landings. May I also suggest cleaning out the inside of all socket drives, In the interest of keeping all shite and schmutz off your now clean bolt heads and nuts.

Am I over the top on this? Yes! We are all a part of your rebuild. Enjoy your holidays, you've got months to put it together! Thanks a ton for sharing.

Carl

Av8rPaul · Post by **Av8rPaul** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 9:54 am

Wow, what a great write up and project. Your plane was a great looking bird before all this, I use the pic of it on skis in a bank over the mountains as my wallpaper. I'm an old Alaskan flying big stuff down here in the states (still own a house up there though!) man that makes me homesick!

I'm looking at buying an M4 or 5 with the 210 or 235 in it, although the more I look at the round tails I can't think of a plane I'd rather have in my hangar than an M4-210C.

That panel is GREAT. Hat's off to you and the "riveter" for all your hardwork and look forward to the next installment!

Rezrider · Post by **Rezrider** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 11:04 am

Av8rPaul wrote:Wow, what a great write up and project. Your plane was a great looking bird before all this, I use the pic of it on skis in a bank over the mountains as my wallpaper. I'm an old Alaskan flying big stuff down here in the states (still own a house up there though!) man that makes me homesick!

I'm looking at buying an M4 or 5 with the 210 or 235 in it, although the more I look at the round tails I can't think of a plane I'd rather have in my hangar than an M4-210C.

That panel is GREAT. Hat's off to you and the "riveter" for all your hardwork and look forward to the next installment!

Welcome Av8rPaul, just buy one and join the circus!

Av8rPaul · Post by **Av8rPaul** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 5:14 pm

Rezrider wrote:
Av8rPaul wrote:Wow, what a great write up and project. Your plane was a great looking bird before all this, I use the pic of it on skis in a bank over the mountains as my wallpaper. I'm an old Alaskan flying big stuff down here in the states (still own a house up there though!) man that makes me homesick!

I'm looking at buying an M4 or 5 with the 210 or 235 in it, although the more I look at the round tails I can't think of a plane I'd rather have in my hangar than an M4-210C.

That panel is GREAT. Hat's off to you and the "riveter" for all your hardwork and look forward to the next installment!
Welcome Av8rPaul, just buy one and join the circus!

I know! I've got some time off coming up and I want to head up to WA and get some dual with Vashon Island Air in his Maule and get a good feel for the plane. Then start shopping in earnest.

YELLOWMAULE · Post by **YELLOWMAULE** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 9:09 pm

Well, first, Happy New Years to all of you.
I have been quite but busy here. Where does the time go, right? We've had to make a couple trips Outside for a family member but we're trying to get back on track. The fuselage is done. Well, with painting anyway. The tailfeathers are painted and stripped, one wing is now done. Again (Redo...) I hope to stripe the wing in the morning and prime the next wing the next day. As usual, doing everything twice. Had some damage occur to the wing while in storage and repaired that. Her own gear legs are on and torqued. "Yes Virginia, we're done with one part of the puzzle."
Everything is slowly coming together.
Thanks to all for the encouragement and questions. I will answer what I can and defer to the more seasoned and experienced of which there are quite a few.

TomD · Post by **TomD** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 11:11 pm

Hmmm, looks like a Yellow Maule I used to see in the Puget Sound area.

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YELLOWMAULE · Post by **YELLOWMAULE** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 11:19 pm

Indeed!
Nice picture Tom, thank you. That was a great time. Maybe in the next year or so we will bring her down for a couple weeks.
Our very best to you and Suz!

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Sat Jan 02, 2016 8:39 am

lookin good Kurt... Happy New Year....

Rezrider · Post by **Rezrider** » Sat Jan 02, 2016 9:03 am

The paint looks good.....
those skis hanging on the wall look PIMP!...
2016 is going to be a good year................

VA Maule · Post by **VA Maule** » Sat Jan 02, 2016 5:04 pm

Indeed it is looking really good and in the home stretch (or as we say in aviation ON SHORT FINAL )

BTW you did save the molds for that cool carbon fiber panel?

YELLOWMAULE · Post by **YELLOWMAULE** » Sun Jan 03, 2016 7:28 pm

Short final, has a good ring to it considering the context!
yes, we have a mold for the upper and lower panels, the glare shield and soon, the tips. The floors are cut to fit.

Mountain Doctor · Post by **Mountain Doctor** » Mon Jan 04, 2016 8:18 am

Nice pic, Tom.

Nothing prettier than a yellow Maule on green grass.

chris erasmus · Post by **chris erasmus** » Mon Jan 04, 2016 10:06 am

It's looking good!!

crbnunit · Post by **crbnunit** » Wed Jan 06, 2016 6:54 pm

Sweet!!

truthinbeer · Post by **truthinbeer** » Thu Jan 07, 2016 2:57 pm

TomD wrote:Hmmm, looks like a Yellow Maule I used to see in the Puget Sound area.

Good photo of a tidy landing.

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