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 drilled and in a specific order from the middle of Read more
September 24th, 2020 Page 7-4: Step 4-6, Page 7-5: Step 1-5 I finished the rest of the control horn drilling/countersinking, deburring, and match drilling. I also got the spare deburred and all of the stiffeners and shear clips clecoed together and match drilled. I also finally countersunk the control horn Read more
September 23rd, 2020 Page 7-2: Step 1-3, Page 7-3: Step 1, Page 7-4: Step 1-3 After rethinking and reinspecting the holes I had dimpled in the vertical stabilizer skin, I realized there were just a ton of holes that were misshapen. And after some discussion on Facebook, I’ve come to Read more
September 22nd, 2020 Page 6-3: Step 7-11, Page 6-4: Step 1-4 I got alot done today! I got all of the dimpling completed as well as countersinking. I need to figure out how to get the primer done tomorrow for all of the internal parts. I will need to put Read more
September 21st, 2020 Page 6-3: Step 6 First day of skin dimpling and first day of the dimple slip mistake. Well, twice! LOL. Going to research how best to resolve this one. I might have to step up a size in rivet for one of these, but not sure on Read more
September 19th, 2020 Page 6-3: Step 3 & 4 All of the parts were together for the first time today! I got all of the holes drilled. I did notice a mistake a made on the original drilling I did for the flange holes. I drilled them to #30 size Read more
September 18, 2020 Page 6-2: Step 6, Page 6-3: Step 1-2 I finally got steps 6 and7 done! The holes are countersunk for the rivets on the bottom half of the front side of the spar doubler and all of the other pieces have been deburred. I might need to Read more
September 16th, 2020 Page 6-2: Step 2 – 4 Well, I’m not cheering too soon haha. It will be coming apart again to get reburred, but this is its first time together! This was Section 6, Steps 3-5.
September 15th, 2020 Page 6-2: Step 1 & 2 I just got cleared to start doing work again. I’ve been out since June 24th due to rotator cuff repair. I will say, I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy. I got almost back to where I was before my Read more
July 10th, 2020 Page 6-2: Step 4 I’m glad I found my mistake early on in the build. And it reinforces to me the absolute importance of reading sentence by sentence and understanding exactly what they are expecting. Also… Don’t have preconceived idea of what they want either. My first Read more