Yesterday my compressor got sick, every time the tank fills with air the safety valve opens so it was a short day as I couldn’t do any of the gear strut drilling that still remained. We took it to a…
Month: December 2013
Gear Strut Fitting, Seat Base Fiddling (7 hr)
A new area to work on – prepping the gear channel area for the landing gear. First up there are a pair of gear strut fittings that go inside the gear channel. You need to lay out some bolt locations…
Joining rear and front fuselage (3 h)
Today Teri met me at the hangar and we put the two fuselage halves back together. A little bit of study of the plans and the video and I convinced myself it was ok to rivet most of the remaining…
Rear Fuselage Riveting Part 3 (1.5 h)
After giving it some thought during the week I decided I would take the incorrectly positioned control tunnel side out and move it forward of the baggage upright (instead of behind where it is supposed to go) and see if…
Rear Fuselage Riveting Part 2 (3h)
Hoping to finish off the rear fuselage and get onto the mating of the two halves, I riveted the flaperon control cover. There’s a difference here from the video where they say not to rivet the hole line next to…