I got the baggage door verified that it is already final sized, cut the hinge for the door, debuted and dimpled everything so I can prime it tomorrow after my EAA chapter meeting. Worked at least some today to get my mind off the things in this world.
I got a little bit of time to work on the baggage door tonight but I found it difficult to work too much after seeing the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Such a sad day….
Most of the time was spent finishing the rear baggage panel which looks fairly nice! I did need to enlarge a few of the holes for the screws because they were slightly off but I didn’t have to do it too much and the screw heads still cover the entire Read more
I worked through all of the drilling for the rear baggage panels and the right baggage panel. The rear was the hardest as you were supposed to cleco the panel after each hole but none of the clecos are the right size and I have all of the sizes for Read more
I got the baggage bulkhead channel installed on the bottom half as they requested. The upper half will happen much later when I get the canopy installed. That took a surprising amount of time due to the difficulty of removing the elevator pushrod assembly. I also got the rear baggage Read more
I had to do some prep work before putting the baggage floors down first. I pulled up the fuel transducer bracket that we riveted in yesterday because I totally forgot to put nutplates in it for the FT-60 LOL Got that done and put it back in. Then Andrew and Read more
It took way longer than I expected to make two doublers but I wanted these things to be super accurate looking. This then took alot of time measuring and drawing lines for every single rivet hole. The drill press made fairly quick work of getting the holes in the first Read more
The shop is in disarray right now as I’m tired LOL Somedays I don’t cleanup after myself. Everything is drilled and I am almost done with dimpling. Some of these are going to be super difficult to dimple. There’s some holes that need to be dimpled that are completely inaccessible Read more
This was fairly straight forward but there were two spots I got hung up on. First was the throttle quadrant bracket (which it didn’t dawn on me the words they had used at the time as I wanted a throttle cable version, but something new to learn anyways). There is Read more
Everything minus the seat pan covers and riveting on the Flo-scan mount bracket were done. Andrew and I set the rivets for the Flo-scan bracket just now and I’ll work on the seat panel covers tonight just so they are ready. I need to get them prepped anyways so that Read more