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 27, 2020 Drilled the firewall, made panel mounts and drilled to forward canopy decks. Match drilled all the holes on the upper forward skin. Drilled all the holes through the firewall for the skin mount. Drilled the center subpanel rib to the firewall. In order to line everything up, I moved the skin backwards... 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 →
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 →
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