A long working session tonight with the help of my wife. We managed to get all the aileron control pushrods and control tubes made up, except for one last little bit of priming, since we ran out of primer. I did manage to capture the first three hours of the … Continue reading
After a short break, I came back down to do a little more work. I decided to go ahead and make the W-818 aileron bellcrank pushrod. We managed to get the W-818 pushrods made, and even got the inside primed. Here’s the time lapse: It started out by grabbing the … Continue reading
I started tonights work with a little upgrade for the wing cradle. I picked up some new casters at Harbor Freight, to make moving the wing cradle a little easier, These have a 200lb each weight rating, and have brakes on each wheel, which will make it easy to lock … Continue reading
Tonight was a pretty special night in the build. I pulled from storage a wing cradle that was given to me by a fellow builder a few years back. Marvin McGraw was putting the finishing touches on his beautiful RV-14 when I reached out to him to purchase his remaining … Continue reading
Another quick build session, but closing out some good work on the wings. I was able to rivet both of the flap braces onto the wings. Here are the timelapse videos: And a closeup of the left wing: Not much to report, I grabbed the flap braces and verified I … Continue reading
I was able to get both the left and right wing aileron gap fairings riveted on the wings. I captured the process in timelapse, heres those videos: And a better close-up view: I started out by dimpling the W-724 aileron gap fairings to accept the AN426AD3-3 rivets for the skin … Continue reading
Starting to get the last remaining parts from my shelf, and onto the airplane! After I let the parts I primered, cure, they are ready to go onto the wings. I needed to get the aileron brackets riveted on, and I figured it would be easier to do with the … Continue reading
Another BIG work session done with the help of my wife Tammy! We managed to get all the bottom skins, aileron brackets, pitot parts, flap braces, and aileron seals primed during this work session. I thought I captured two time lapse videos, but I must have bumped the camera on … Continue reading
Tammy helped me rivet the right wing top skins tonight! We had a sitter at Nana’s house, so we went down and got the last portion of two-person riveting done tonight. I captured the entire work session in timelapse, hers those videos: Closer view of the riveting process: We started … Continue reading
A quick update on this one. I’ve decided to do one big priming session this weekend to be efficient. Planning on priming all the bottom wing skins, the aileron brackets, flap braces and aileron gap seals all in one go. So, I needed to get the deburring work done on … Continue reading