I didn’t get a ton of time today but I did get the left tank marked and then disassembled. I deburred the holes from the rib flanges to the skins and I also deburred the J channel since I drilled new holes in it. I need to go through the Read more
While I was in Florida, the J stiffener arrived. I got it cut, deburred, marked, and drilled today. I think I’m going to stop here on the gas tanks until I can get the tank seal as I want to keep the tank parts as condensed as possible since I’m Read more
I probably won’t get much time to work on the plane for the next week and a half because of work travel and other items. But we’ll see. I did finally find the wing shims. I didn’t dig deep enough into my small parts box. It was at the bottom Read more
I got the left tank 100% complete for disassembly and dimpling. I got the right tank to the same spot also but since I am missing the J channel I’ll have to leave it where it is at until I can get that done. Luckily they shipped it today so Read more
I got all of the parts deburred today and I assembled the tanks. I realized last week that I only had one J-channel where I needed two for this next step. I ordered the replacement but I’m not sure how long that is going to take to arrive from Van’s. Read more
Just more edge and hole deburring. This was a good way to destress from the past few days. The ribs in this photo still need the edge rivet holes deburred and then I need to deburr the parts on the back edge of the table still. But the parts next Read more
Long title but I try to put what I did in the title. I got all of the tank ribs deburred today. It only took another hour to finish that. I then separated all of the zee brackets and tank skin stiffeners and started deburring some of them.
Here are all of the wings parts gathered for the next section of assembly. I had on and off again time to work on the ribs. That’s why I think this took me longer than usual as I kept getting interrupted. Either way I got 10 of the ribs done Read more