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CowboyPilot
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Crappy weather day here in Tejas, so we're sitting around in the hangar--the wife and I and the German Shephards. Nobody's flying except for a few arrivals. Nice cool day to let Dutch and Dak out to run, so we do. Then it's back home, upstairs, get out of the coats. Find ourselves wandering downstairs to the hangar floor.
I start fiddling with a rag on the 172, and next thing I know, the wife has a rag. I go wet my rag, then next thing I know, the wife has a couple of water buckets filled up.
Dutch and Dak headed for the corner--figured they were about to get a bath.
We wash the 172. We dry the 172. Looks pretty good.
Then a problem.
Wife turns and looks at the Cardinal.
Wife goes and refills buckets with warm water. Away we go. We wash Cardinal. We dry the Cardinal. Looks pretty good.
I go sit down in one of the lazy-boy recliners in the corner by the TV and fireplace. Dutch and Dak figure it's safe and come lay down beside me. I've got remote in hand and am about to turn the TV on when I look over and wife has wax applicator in hand and has started dabbing wax on the Cardinal.
Uh-oh.
We wax Cardinal. Me Karate Kid. Wax on. Wax off. Do not forget to breathe--very important.
I finish getting the last bit of wax off the vertical stab on the Cardinal and I see wife on ladder doing Karate Kid impression on Skyhawk. While wax is drying on Skyhawk, I get out the big 5HP Craftsman shop vac and do the interiors. Wife hands me a can of Klear-to-Land--I spray, she wipes.
Then it's wax-off time for the 172.
Holy cow is there a lot of metal on an airplane.
Where is that little Japanese karate teacher guy to rub his hands together real quick and then press them on my aching joints?
-JD
I start fiddling with a rag on the 172, and next thing I know, the wife has a rag. I go wet my rag, then next thing I know, the wife has a couple of water buckets filled up.
Dutch and Dak headed for the corner--figured they were about to get a bath.
We wash the 172. We dry the 172. Looks pretty good.
Then a problem.
Wife turns and looks at the Cardinal.
Wife goes and refills buckets with warm water. Away we go. We wash Cardinal. We dry the Cardinal. Looks pretty good.
I go sit down in one of the lazy-boy recliners in the corner by the TV and fireplace. Dutch and Dak figure it's safe and come lay down beside me. I've got remote in hand and am about to turn the TV on when I look over and wife has wax applicator in hand and has started dabbing wax on the Cardinal.
Uh-oh.
We wax Cardinal. Me Karate Kid. Wax on. Wax off. Do not forget to breathe--very important.
I finish getting the last bit of wax off the vertical stab on the Cardinal and I see wife on ladder doing Karate Kid impression on Skyhawk. While wax is drying on Skyhawk, I get out the big 5HP Craftsman shop vac and do the interiors. Wife hands me a can of Klear-to-Land--I spray, she wipes.
Then it's wax-off time for the 172.
Holy cow is there a lot of metal on an airplane.
Where is that little Japanese karate teacher guy to rub his hands together real quick and then press them on my aching joints?
-JD
Being willing and able to clean and wax the rudder and vert stabilizer can land you an extra $10.
