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
There were only a few things I had to do with this when I got it but I’ve already logged these. They had some snap bushings for the brake lines running through the rudder pedal support bracket that were missing and also the vent selector boxes were not bolted on Read more
This section looked really good! Each of the rivets looks properly set with a tiny bit of variation which is expected. The bottom skin looks pretty good as well with few deviations in the skin which I honestly believe is impossible to not get a perfectly flat surface on any Read more
I decided I’m going to log each section that was to be done by the QB team just so I have it documented that I reviewed each step. Luckily this section was fairly easy to review still. So there will be a post for each section coming up shortly as Read more