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…
Month: January 2014
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…
Cabin Sides and Firewall Riveting (2h)
Today my goal was simply to rivet the firewall to the fuselage and complete the cabin sides. First step was to reassemble everything. A little forward thinking had me realise that it would be easier to do some of the…
Nose Gear and Cabin Side (3.5 h)
My wife’s uncle had offered some help so I booked him for the afternoon on the idea that I would have everything prepped on the nose gear for his arrival. Of course, everything takes longer than I think (even with…