Finally received the replacement parts from Vans after about 4 months of waiting. Not bad considering they are estimating 12-18 months to completely replace all the old laser cut parts. Needless to say the new parts are not laser cut, back to the punch press and nice clean parts. Now after more than 7 months off, we can get back to it. Before I do anything, I need to get the skills sharpened again. It's like riding a bike for some things like riveting, you don't forget but you do get rusty. With that in mind I intentionally saved the Van's light box practice kit all winter long for when I was ready to start building again so I could brush up with that first before getting back to the actual build. To be honest it was actually fun to put this little light box kit together, to make some design decisions on it, which rivets to use and where, whether to drive the rivet, pull the rivet or set it with the squeezer. I ended up doing all of the above to brush up on all the tools and skills and the little light box came out great. I was surprised at how quickly I picked things back up and knowing I could just set each rivet and not worry about it's quality was a fun way to spend a day. I even primed the inside surfaces so as not to be reflective. I think I missed the smell of the self-etching primer, LOL! After a day of building the light box was pretty much complete. I ordered some different electronics off of Amazon for it so that I could hang it up on the wall and have the cord reach the outlets. Otherwise pretty much built it to spec other than the little bracket I made to hold the LED power supply internally. Now it's time to get serious once again. I cut new 2" aluminum spacers for the tie down attach brackets which I ordered a new set off of the internet that have the holes already tapped for the tie down rings so one less chore to have to do. I just remembered that I bought upgraded tie down rings so I need to make sure those two parts will mate up. So 7+ months from the last time the two wing spars saw the light of day I uncovered them and the build is officially on once again. My goal is to finish the two fuel tanks this summer taking advantage of the warm temps to be able to work with the ProSeal. We'll see.