I got the rest of the hinges drilled today as well as the shim dimpled and the hinges countersunk. All I have to do tomorrow is rivet all of this together and this section will be done. Should be roughly another hour.
I got all of the hinges cut and put in place with their initial drilled holes. It then took me the rest of tonight’s time to get the top hinges done because they are pretty stiff and didn’t want to conform to the tight bend. I’m going to imagine they Read more
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