Firewall
Top Cowl Hinges Drilled
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 Read more
Firewall
Cowl Hinges and Shims Prepped
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 Read more
Fuselage
Upper Forward Fuselage Fully Attached & Front Seats Installed
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. Read more
Fuselage
Upper Forward Fuselage Almost Attached
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 Read more
Landing Gear
Tires Mounted & ELT Rivets Finished
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 Read more
Avionics
ELT (almost) Installed
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 Read more
Controls
Brake Lines Finally Finished!
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 Read more
Controls
Rudder and Elevator Servos Installed & Controls Adjusted
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 Read more
Fuselage
Seat Rails Completely Installed & Garmin Servos
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 Read more
Fuselage
Seat Rail Install
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 Read more