This is the first post in a very long time, mainly because I've only been working on a single thing since halloween. So far I finished all the work on the tail and the canopy. I ended up making a new empannage fairing since I didn't like the one Van's supplied. I also made the... Continue Reading →
July 30, 2020 PAINT DAY! primed everything that's going behind the panel so it'll never rust. Yay paint. -Paul(Total Build Time: 484.6)
July 28, 2020 I attempted to get the internal rudder stop installed, but its never as easy as people claim. I want to mount it between the rudder mount flanges instead of on top or bottom. This means that you have to remove material in the middle of the "V" to fit around the rod... Continue Reading →
July 22-24, 2020 Temporarily put the rudder in place and moved up to the pedals to make the linkages for the rudder cables. The first set was for the rear most pedal position. Once the interior is in, if we need to make up mounts to move the pedals all the way forward, I'll go... Continue Reading →
July 21, 2020 Today was the day for the vertical stab to be drilled in place. After clamping it in place and measuring from the top of the tail to the skins on the horizontal stabs, we took our time to make sure it was perfectly centered. After a few rounds of measuring and moving... Continue Reading →
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 →
June 27, 2020 I spent today cleaning up all the recommendations from the tech advisor inspection. He wanted us to deburr all the empennage skins more thoroughly and re-squeeze every 3/32" rivet we could reach. It took a while but I finished that work on the rudder, the horizontal stab, and the vertical stab -... Continue Reading →
May 15, 2020 After a couple of days lost in the mail, the replacement trim tab hinge came in. It didn't take long to mock it up and cut it to size now that I saw how everything was supposed to go together. An hour or so later and everything on the trim tab was... Continue Reading →
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