Railchummer wrote:After the 6 months of rain we just endured in the PNW having my plane down now is driving me nuts. This past winter I think you could count the nice VFR days in western Washington on your fingers. After I get the thing back together I intend to religiously annual it in December/January so as to not squander a single available VFR day starting in the spring. Thermal underwear is now as thin and light as a T-shirt and will fit nicely under a pair of coveralls if required, and a couple LED floodlights take care of the darkness issue. I'd rather dress warm in winter than lose a flying day in the spring. If you have to inspect your aircraft outside I guess you're stuck, but at this point I'd drag my aircraft under a portable awning and inspect it in full rain gear rather than lose a spring/summer flying day. And it's not just flying that's lost during a spring/summer annual; it's the fishing, hiking, camping, etc. that goes along with it. Smallmouth are spawning in the Yakima, walleye are biting in the Columbia, there's opening day cutthroat at Henry's Lake, etc., etc..

CamTom12 wrote:Probably the best maintained 8GCBC I've heard of!

If you don't have a brass screwdriver, I've found that biting one end of a skinny coffee-stirring straw flat does the trick in a pinch. Or taking apart a cheap pen and doing the same to the plastic ink tube. The old shiny Skilcraft clicky pens had brass ink tubes that worked real good