Not much to report on this one. I came down and bonded the nylon conduit to the ribs using fuel tank sealant. Another slightly messy sealant job I guess. It’s only bonding the conduit to the ribs to prevent abrasion from vibration and such. Then I dabbed a little sealant … Continue reading
Another quick working session tonight. I installed the nylon wiring conduit in both wings, and captured two views of the time lapse. Here they are: I pulled the 50′ spool of conduit from its shelf, opened the bag and uncoiled it to make it a bit easier to work with. … Continue reading
Another good milestone tonight! The ailerons have their pushrods installed and they are set to neutral position and aligned. Things are wrapping up quickly. I captured two time lapses of the work tonight. I started out by removing all of the masking tape from the W-818 pushrods. The primer has … Continue reading
Quick update on this one. The primer in the W-818 pushrod tubes has dried so its time to rivet up the threaded rod ends on these pushrods and call them done. I still needed to file down the AN490-HT8p threaded rod ends a little to fit into the ST4130 tubing, … Continue reading
My shipment of replacement parts to rebuilt the aileron pushrods came in today. Recall from an earlier post How a local welder really jacked up my aileron pushrods in an attempt the weld them, so I ordered the materials to rebuilt them. I actually ordered extra 48″ of tubing and … Continue reading
After a short break, I came back down to the shop to get the alignment jig made. I’ve ready a few ways of doing this, but honestly, Vans has the most simple way of doing it and its worked for countless other builders, so I decided to stick with convention … Continue reading
Since I am still waiting on the aileron pushrods, I figured I’d knock out a few of the last straggling tasks. This session was all about the access plates for the wings. I wanted to get the nutplates riveted onto the access holes in the bottom wing skins, and also … Continue reading
A little change of pace! I’m back to dimpling skins. This time around I managed to get all 4 of the bottom skins dimpled: 2 inboard and 2 outboard. I didn’t snap any photos of this work, but I did get a time lapse of the entire session. It’s not … Continue reading
Not really a whole lot to report on this session, I did manage to get the left wing bell crank installed and few wires ran though. I’ve decided to not built a mounting bracket for the pitot / AOA tubes just yet. I think I may have an elegant solution, … Continue reading
It’s time to get the left aileron mounted! I’ll save all the details on this post, as those are all covered in the right wing mounting. I’ll do a brief synopsis, and let the time lapse speak for itself. I started by cutting both of the spacers for the inboard … Continue reading