July 20, 2020 Today I fabricated the elevator up-stop which does double duty as a mounting point for the vertical stabilizer. It's a horizontal piece that sits across he rear deck. It turns out that we couldn't hit full throw anyway so it took some investigating to figure out what was binding. We found that... Continue Reading →
July 18, 2020 The next step in mounting the horizontal stabilizer is to drill the holes that set the incidence. The instructions say to use a 3/16" space under the rear spar to set the incidence of the horizontal stabilizer. We used trial and error with various size drill bits that were all around 3/16"... Continue Reading →
July 16, 2020 I started today with a hardware store run. I purchased some 3/8" shaft collars and springs for the brake pedals. I don't like the idea of dragging brakes so adding some spring returns will ensure the pedals are held in place during taxi. Spring returns for the brake pedals I also picked... Continue Reading →
July 15, 2020 After a few days of looking at really the ugly pushrod tubes, I decided to redo the primer on them. I originally used a paintbrush to put it on, and while it was "primed" it looked terrible. I spent hours with an angle wheel and scotch-brite pads removing all the old primer.... Continue Reading →
July 14, 2020 This morning I finished installing the seat belt anchors by dimpling, priming and riveting in the mounts together. The right angle drill came in so I was able to completely install them. One more "little thing" done that I can check off the list. Seatbelt Anchors Since I can't rivet the wing... Continue Reading →
July 13, 20 The correct rod end for the elevator push rod arrived in the mail so that project can finally be finished. I used the same technique here as I did for the aileron pushrods. Measure the eye to eye distance, drill those holes in the table and then install the threaded inserts of... Continue Reading →
July 11 & 12, 2020 We couldn't come up with any good reasons to hold off on riveting the wing skins, so the next couple of days were spent preparing for that. We went through that good old routine of match drilling, deburring, and dimpling the skin for both wings. Both wings prior to putting... Continue Reading →
July 10, 2020 We're planning on mounting throttle quadrants to the arm rests. It's one of the more non-standard design choices we've made. The arm rests as installed in the quick build kit are a fairly flimsy piece of aluminum. Even without the throttle quadrants, there seems to be general consensus that the stock armrests... Continue Reading →
July 9, 2020 We finished going through all of the drawings to see what other things weren't mentioned in the instructions book. We didn't find anything in the drawings we've already covered so I moved on to the subpanel. I started with fabricating a few of the smaller mounting brackets for the subpanel and panel... Continue Reading →
July 1, 2020 Finished installing the parts I made for the baggage compartment wear blocks. Most of the prep work for these was done yesterday, so this was fairly easy to finish up. Just a few rivets and these were finished up. They'll go on a shelf for a while until final assembly. I also... Continue Reading →
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