You should have seen us fretting over the manual riveter. One-half a day was wasted as we stumble trough one tenth of our riveting job. At the last minute we checked the Northern Tool catalog and rushed up to the store 10 minutes shy of closing. We knew our luck was changing when the clerk offered, "we have that."
We polished off the rest of the job in less than an hour.
We used two tubes of 3M 5200 to bed the mast track. We are very pleased with the job so far. A small amount of re-caulking the margins will be necessary.
We are continuing to prepare for the shelter installation. Today we bought a post driver. Wow is this a fine piece of equipment. We looked on the web all over the US completely unable to find a 4 inch driver. On a hunch we check our favorite hardware store (Handy ACE). Sure enough, there it was.
Karen spent the last two days digging holes. After digging a shallow depression she repeatedly soaked the hole. After many hours of hard work, She finished twelve holes 12 inches deep. We plan to drive 2X4's along the line and bury 4x4 corner posts. All will be poured with concrete and sawed off to level. The final step will be to screw 2X6 planks to the posts which will serve as the level base for us to connect the uprights for the shelter.
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