Research
Panel Placement Idea
I am part of a Van’s builder group on Facebook and one of the members posted their panel layout which I thought was very simple and well placed. I wanted to note it here so that I could remember to Read more
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Day 20 & 21 – Vertical Stabilizer Riveting
Well, the luck finally fell on me. I got COVID so I’m spending alot of time in isolation from everyone. I spent some time doing some riveting but it’s gotten a little worse recently so I’m going to put this Read more
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Day 19 – First Day Priming!
October 3rd, 2020 Today was the first time getting the chance to prime. I had all of the parts from the VS, rudder, and first few steps of the HS to prime. I took some ideas from these two paint Read more
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Day 18 – Horizontal Stabilizer Initial Steps
October 1st, 2020 Page 8-2: Step 1 – 4 This was the biggest piece I’ve ever had to deburr. It took quite a bit of time just getting the spar deburred, let alone the doubler. It looks great now though! Read more
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Day 17 – VS Skin Redimpling and Separating Parts
I spent the whole part of today finishing the dimpling on the skin. I used the close quarters dimple die for a few holes but they just didn’t turn out very well. So I used the other close quarters die Read more
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Day 16 – New VS Skin Arrived!
September 29th, 2020 The new skin arrived! And I was surprised that it had final sized holes! Sped up the work a TON. I almost got all of the dimpling done, but I’ll finish that tomorrow. I did break the Read more
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Day 15 – Reassembly & HS Parts
September 28th, 2020 I didn’t do too much work today as I was trying to determine if I could fix the trailing edge of the rudder skin or if I should reorder it. I put the rudder back together to Read more
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Day 14 – Dimpling and Countersinking Rudder
September 27th, 2020 Page 7-6: Step 11-12 I didn’t spend too much time today on this. I spent alot of time trying to get the platform setup right. I started dimpling the trailing edge and it just didn’t look right. Read more
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Day 13 – Deburring and more Deburring
September 26th, 2020 Page 7-6: Step 8-10 Steps 8 & 9 were done very quickly as it wasn’t alot of effort or deburring. The bend in the trailing edge of the rudder was pretty easy with the tool from Cleaveland Read more
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Day 12 – Rudder Together for First Time
September 25th, 2020 Page 7-6: Step 1-7 I spent a lot of time today working on getting everything clecoed together and doing match drilling. The most difficult part was that they wanted a cleco for every hole that you match Read more