Yeap. Part 3. This is a short session for tonight, but progress none the less. I also stopped by Ace Hardware and picked up another small can of oil based metal primer to finish off the other tube, where we ran short last night. I did manage to completely assembly … Continue reading
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 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
After grabbing a bite to eat after finishing up the wing skins, I came back down and decided to rivet together the aileron brackets. In the last session with these things, I alodined all the parts and sprayed primer on the angle brackets mating surfaces. Everything is cured and ready … Continue reading
Changed it up a bit tonight! I am still holding off on riveting the wing skins until my wife is free to help, which is kinda rare with a 4 year old! So, I decided to go ahead and get the aileron brackets assembled and ready. I also grabbed all … Continue reading
Not much to report tonight. I spent about 45 minutes riveting the bottom of the right aileron. All I had left to do was squeeze a few rivets on the ribs and then pull the blind rivets where the skins meet the spar. It starts by putting the aileron, bottom … Continue reading
This work session is the exact same as riveting the left aileron. So I won’t go into much detail. Feel free to browse on over to my blog entry for the left aileron here as well as here to get all the details. It starts out by riveting the nose ribs … Continue reading
I ended up scoring a decent little pneumatic rivet puller / gun from Harbor Freight for $25 after the coupon during their sale. This will save me some labor on ALL those blind rivets along the bottom of the ailerons. Lets put it to use! I don’t like very much … Continue reading