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Hello again;

Thanks for checking and following along.

It has been a busy few weeks.... we bought a house! We have been looking and working on options for years now and I was beginning to think it would never happen. Things fell into place and tadaaa, we are moving.
We have been renovating the master suite in our existing house, so that has been fun...
At work we are gearing up for a May outage...
We enjoyed our mountain excursion in Feb so much we went back again last weekend...

I have been reading everyone else’s post and Jonesing to get some work done on mine. I was able to spend the day at the shop yesterday and got the cab complete in epoxy. I had tried the weekend before we went away, but the brand new shop compressor was down and the air just wasn’t there.
Friday after work I went in to the shop and got things set up so that when I got in Sat I could get straight at it. I wanted to freshly blast the cab inside and out which took me about 3 hours. Blowing the dust and debris out of all the knooks and crannies probably took me another hour. Next up, using 180grit, I hit the outside with the orbital sander. The primer booth happened to be available so I cleaned that out then rolled the cab in. One final dust off, and then a wash down with degreaser to be sure it was clean. I had a few other cab parts to paint, so those got hung by the chimney with care...
I sprayed everything with at least 2 coats of the U-tech epoxy which took me a couple of hours. I started at 10 and finished up a little after 6, staggered home and hit the shower.

I am feeling it today, but I can have a bit of a lazy day. All I have to do to stay in the wife’s good books is install a toilet and sink and then do a little electrical work. I better get going or I will be at it late again.

Stay safe,
Steve