Build Log

I got the skin dimpling done for the left side. I noticed that one of the holes must not have been drilled out when I was match drilling. I’ll have to reassemble that area and then drill that hole. Everything went pretty smoothly though. I didn’t have a good idea Read more

I got almost all of the deburring done on the left elevator. I noticed that I had forgotten to prep the edge of the lightening circles on the front spar, so I got that done. I redid some of the fold work on the elevator skins too because it wasn’t Read more

After I had finished all of the match drilling yesterday, it was time to work on these access panels before it has to be entirely disassembled. I did both the left and right elevator since my missing hardware does not affect me prepping these parts. Getting the nut plate drilled Read more

I got all of the pieces done and assembled and match drilled up to Page 9-8 Step 3. Even though these are just like the rudder in a way, they have quite a few more pieces in total since you are building two at the same time. I did run Read more

I got quite quite a bit of clecoing done today as well as a little bit of the match drilling. The coolest part was doing the tab bends on the E-1001A & B skins. Using the mushroom bit in the rivet gun worked like a champ on getting those bends Read more

I spent quite a bit of time going through and deburring all of the elevator pieces minus the large skin edges. That took the most time out of all of this. I then worked on the 903 and 904 pieces to get them straight and level. Mine came pre-fluted but Read more

My son and I found all of the elevator parts in the attic and brought them down to start working on them. I’m not including the searching and inventory time in yesterday’s work. We got all of the protective plastic off of them and I cut the ribs per the Read more