I got all of the stiffeners marked and final size cut today. Yesterday I had only separated them into the individual stiffeners with the rough cut. I deburred all of the parts today as well. That was the majority of the time. I also spent some time getting the pitot Read more…
I spent most of my time yesterday and today either working or doing graduation activities for my oldest. I watched the Van’s fuel tank video again. And that thing is not short. It is 2 hours and 40 minutes long. But it is loaded with good information. I almost wish Read more…
I probably won’t get much time to work on the plane for the next week and a half because of work travel and other items. But we’ll see. I did finally find the wing shims. I didn’t dig deep enough into my small parts box. It was at the bottom Read more…
I got the left tank 100% complete for disassembly and dimpling. I got the right tank to the same spot also but since I am missing the J channel I’ll have to leave it where it is at until I can get that done. Luckily they shipped it today so Read more…
I got all of the parts deburred today and I assembled the tanks. I realized last week that I only had one J-channel where I needed two for this next step. I ordered the replacement but I’m not sure how long that is going to take to arrive from Van’s. Read more…
Just more edge and hole deburring. This was a good way to destress from the past few days. The ribs in this photo still need the edge rivet holes deburred and then I need to deburr the parts on the back edge of the table still. But the parts next Read more…
Long title but I try to put what I did in the title. I got all of the tank ribs deburred today. It only took another hour to finish that. I then separated all of the zee brackets and tank skin stiffeners and started deburring some of them.
Here are all of the wings parts gathered for the next section of assembly. I had on and off again time to work on the ribs. That’s why I think this took me longer than usual as I kept getting interrupted. Either way I got 10 of the ribs done Read more…
The boys were both busy today so I decided to see if my wife could help. She did an excellent job and bucked the rivets like a champ! I’ve got all of the gas tank parts down from the attic so I can start on that tomorrow.
I got the wing moved over and I modified the wing stand so that it has the carpet sling to hold the leading edge. I then got the leading edge almost completely riveted but I didn’t have anyone to buck the other portion. Hopefully I’ll get one of the boys Read more…