Radio - 0.5 hours (478.5 Total)

Today I also epoxied a velcro strip to my instrument panel for the radio.

Several weeks ago I placed self adhesive velcro on the back of the radio and onto the instrument panel. Unfortunately, the adhesive didn't stick well enough to the fabric and peeled off.

In the photo below you can see the velcro strip that has been glued to the panel. I needed to put the tape on the edges to prevent them from curing up before the glue set.

Door Handle - 2 hours (478 Total)

Today I installed my door handle.

The door handle installation was pretty strait forward until it came to securing the plastic handles to the aluminum tube which goes through the door. The instruction manual has you use a nutsert and a stainless steel screw. The screw goes all the way through the handle and aluminum tube and is threaded into the nutsert on the other side. I assumed that the reason for this setup was to allow the removal of the screw and handle. It turns out that the handle cannot be removed once the nutsert is installed anyway.

If I were to do it again, I would just use rivets instead. I also needed to replace the screws because the allan wrench heads stripped out while I was installing them.