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Comment by Joe Harrington on May 23, 2013 at 11:19pm

If you get out here, please stop in. We have a couple extra rooms so we can put you up. You might want to leave the floats at home; not much water in southern Saskatchewan and Alberta.. By this time next year a few of us should be flying. Not sure if I will be one, though.

Comment by Conrad Watters on May 23, 2013 at 4:48pm

Joe, I put up another photo showing the effect of a short strip of electricians tape on the anterior surface of the left down tube. I wanted to show that the anti glare does not have to cover the entire surface. In my case I did not want it to visually interfer with the goose 's neck.

I will be covering the front surface of the down tube - eventually.

I still plan on getting out west with my plane, and hope to be able to drop in and see your fleet.

Currently, I am in the process of fitting some full lotus floats.

Good luck with your build. ps - 912 has been solid.

Re tape --- I expect that I will need to replace ( 10 minutes) eventually. This was done because I had  trouble with keeping the original rubber attached.

Comment by Joe Harrington on May 23, 2013 at 11:11am

Conrad, thanks for posting these pictures. It confirms my choosing to paint my cage flat black and convering the glareshield with flat black material. I like taking photos out the plane and your photos show quite a lot of glare from the gloss yellow reflected in the windshield. Do you think the tape will stay firmly in place, especially in the hot sun? BTW, awesome paint job!