I am needing to spend more time here for the foreseeable future studying for my commercial checkride. So I’ll still be spending time building but I’m going to have to limit it some. I got the hinges and the shims for them cut today. These will go along the firewall Read more
Brendon and I got the ~30 rivets done to finish the upper forward fuselage install. I decided to go ahead and complete the panel installation for everything as well as the seats just to see how it all fits together. I’ve also decided I’m going to do the full piano Read more
I went ahead and started working on getting the upper forward fuselage attached today. I attached the 9 LP4-3 rivets but when I went to start riveting the ribs to the firewall I noticed that the middle rib was out of alignment. Come to find out the bend in the Read more
The new rivet gun arrived from Amazon this morning. It has a very low profile nose and worked pretty good. I had to use it not only for the ELT mount but also for the upper forward fuselage attachment and it worked great each time. I decided to go ahead Read more
I decided to go ahead and get the ELT installed since I have all of that ready to go. It went well up until I started pulling the rivets at the top. The first one got stuck in my rivet gun. This thing is pictured above the place it went; Read more
I decided I was going to get this work done today no matter what. I honestly feel I’m going to end up coming back here to replace these lines. It just seems to wrong that these lines take so much effort to install. I know quite a few of the Read more
This is going to be a couple posts just so I can track my time properly across sections, but I got the servos installed for the controls. Luckily it wasn’t too terrible but it is a tight area. I then got the control column measurement tool cut and made so Read more
I got the Garmin servos in today. I just need to install them tomorrow and then I can finish the controls section as well. But the seat rails are finally fully installed. I found that I had actually bent some of the nutplates and broken some of the rivets. I Read more
I decided to get the seat rails installed today since my servos didn’t arrive today. I got the rails installed for the most part. I am missing one of the nuts that dropped in the fuselage so I’ll have to dig around and try to find that. And then one Read more
I didn’t get much done today but I got something. I bolted the control column to the elevator mid push tube assembly and got the safety wire in place. I then measured the control sticks to make sure they were equal distance. I adjusted it a bit as it was Read more