The stabiliser assembly had been teasing me for a couple of weeks sat on the bench waiting for the skin but a couple of busy weekends left me unable or unwilling to get into the garage. We start with the…
Day 40: Rear Bracket Hinge Fix (20m)
This weekend saw us attend two weddings so there wasn’t really any opportunity to work on the plane until the Sunday and then let’s just say I wasn’t in the best physical shape to be working with power tools. I…
Day 39: Riveting the Stabilizer Skeleton (3h 30m)
Having deburred the holes yesterday, the first task was to prime the areas where metal touches metal. Used a lot of primer, here. It took a while to put things back together, starting with just the front spar, attaching the…
Day 38: Horizontal Stabilizer Deburring (2 hr 30m)
Day 37: More Stabilizer Skin and Rear Bracket (1hr 30m)
In keeping with the general build plan, the next phase of the tail construction was to drill out all the holes to ye olde A4 rivet size. This completes the skin, spar and ribs preparation, they now need to be…
Day 36: Stabilizer Skin and Rear Bracket (1hr 30m)
After last week’s failure with the straps I started off the day by duct taping the skin to the spar and then trying to get the straps over and around and tight. No matter how we tried we couldn’t get…