I didn’t get alot of time to work on the plane this weekend with all of the church and band activities we participated in. I did get the left elevator attached and measured the gap along the counter balance. It is 1/16″ wider at the front than at the back. Read more…
I decided to go on ahead and go through the empennage attach section since I’m still waiting on Van’s to get back with me on the elevator tab template. I also don’t want to pull all of the wing parts out just yet since I was reviewing the parts I Read more…
Got my first hour of rework done on the trim tabs. I needed to recover some of the parts that I could salvage which was the hinge and the clevis horn components. I hit Vans up for a PDF of the foam rib templates so hopefully they answer tomorrow so Read more…
Andrew and I got the final line of rivets done and I installed the seat belt harnesses. Ready to move back to redoing the elevator trim tabs!
I got quite a few of the rivets done myself but there were some I needed help on. I got my son Andrew to help me out with it. Only had to drill out his first rivet so he did good! I’ll river the skins to the longerons tomorrow and Read more…
I only had a small amount of time tonight and then it’s going to be a week and a half to two weeks before I can get back to this since we are going on vacation. I finalized the rear deck and I loaded all of the rivets into the Read more…
I got a manual squeezer which was able to get into the areas I needed. It kind of bent the rivets over in some cases which I don’t understand why it was doing that. I had it straight on to the rivets, but I couldn’t tell if it was bending Read more…
I spent quite a bit of time with my son Brendon today getting the side rivets completed as well as the bottom rivets. We had to drill some of the rivets that were done yesterday as well as today out as he was learning how to keep the rivet gun Read more…
Spent most of the day today getting these rivets done. Got my son Brendon involved who did a good job at running the rivet gun. Luckily we both have a music background so we based his count on 1.5 beats at 60 bpm. LOL
She’s starting to look like a tailcone again after yesterday’s work! I got the final F-1012 bulkhead put together and then I got all of the bottom and side skins put together with the frames and bulkheads. I got the front section of the stiffners riveted and then I just Read more…