After putting the wheels on, it almost feels like the project is “done”, should take it easy for a while. Or maybe its because the next things are scary, wiring up the controls and putting on an engine are definitely…
Category: Fuselage
On The Wheels (4 h)
MILESTONE DAY! Today I was joined by two “Alans”, my wife’s uncle Allen and her brother in law Alan and I was sure glad of their knowledge and assistance as finishing the wheels was trickier (and of course lengthier) that…
Wheels (3 h)
After talking to people about putting the rims together (and everyone telling me to take it to a tyre shop) I stumbled upon a handy pdf file on the Matco website. It basically said to lube the rings up and…
More Main Gear Work (4 h)
Started the day with trimming off 20mm from each end of the main gear supports. The metal grinder is a fearsome beast and this took me a lot longer than someone would have done who was less afraid of losing…
Main Gear (3 h)
More excitement today, moving on to the main gear (even though I didn’t finish the nose gear yet) and I get to use a new tool. Enter stage left: a rotary grinder/rotary angle. But first I identified the front of…