Wow, three weeks since last update. That's mainly because I had little to show. But I spent a fair amount of time with a tape measure, plumb bob, homemade trammels, etc., tracking down annoying discrepancies.
I was working on the superstructure and I had the hardest time getting things square. I built a scaffold and measured everything against the datum line. Tacked up some tubes in a perfect square (according to the template), only to find it out of square when I mounted it on the scaffold.
Heh. CharleyN and Marty said there'd be days like this. I had about 6 (partial) of them--tacking and then going back and grinding away tacks--measuring, fitting, rejecting, re-profiling, clamping, measuring, etc. On and on. Finally it came together. The only way I could really line things up was to fasten a swiveling wire on the tail post and measure everything from there.
So, finally a step forward:
It's still pleasant therapy for me, despite the back-eddies. My great plans at freeing more time got derailed by a bunch of new cases assigned to me. On the upside, it looks like I'll hit my court-mandated limit in August instead of next January. Maybe that will free up some time.