I got the control horns drilled, the vertical stabilizer forward attachment point prepped, and I also got all of the horizontal stabilizer spacers cut and stuck on to the forward horizontal stabilizer brace attachment points. I’ll have to figure out Read more
I didn’t get too much time yesterday but I did go back and tighten up the lock nuts for the elevator threaded rod end bearings that I forgot to do the other day on the elevators. I also found a Read more
Over the past few days I’ve worked here and there to get both the left and right elevators straight and the control horns drilled. I was surprised that the drill bushing was not only larger in diameter (which they warned Read more
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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more