Quick Entry tonight. I’m getting the right wing up to the point where the left-wing is so that I can rivet the skin zone at about the same time. Here’s a time lapse video. I managed to get the right wing skeleton fully dimpled and even managed to remove a … Continue reading
After resetting the time lapse camera to get a better angle. Here’s that video: I went ahead and moved on to the next step in the plans. Vans has us remove the skins, and dimple the skeleton for the wing. So I did that, and used my squeezer to dimple … Continue reading
Picking up from the last session, I spent a little time deburring the ribs for the leading edge. I had disassembled the left wing leading edge in the last session so it’s time to debur them for dimpling. That’s all the parts I got done. I decided to spent … Continue reading
Well, time to get back to work. After passing my checkride, I have decided to get back to work on the RV-7. I need to get the right wing stand finished up and the right wing mounted in to it, then I can free up some space in the shop … Continue reading
Since the left wing stand is anchored and ready for the wing, I decided to go ahead and get the left wing prepared to go on the stand to free up some space in the shop so I can work on the right wing stand. The plans tells us we … Continue reading
Holy crap…its been a LONG time since I did any real work on the RV-7. Like nearly 7 months. Life’s been a bit busy, I bought a 1973 Cessna Cardinal 177RG and have been flying the wings off of it, and that has taken up some time on the build, … Continue reading
I found a tub that was just big enough to hold two main wing ribs to bathe them in Alumaprep 33 and Alodine! I was lucky I had JUST enough of each to fully submerge the parts. I started out by submerging the parts in Alumaprep, 2 ribs at a … Continue reading
Quick entry tonight. I am still working on my wing stands, more on those in a later post. Tonight I decided to scrub up my Wing Ribs so they’d be ready for Alumaprep and Alodining later on. Pretty simply, I filled up my utility sink with some Dawn dish detergent … Continue reading
Back on the ribs tonight. Since I have finished up the control surfaces for the wings, and I am still needing to build my wing stands, the only thing I can work on is the holes for my conduit and pitot and AOA plumbing in the wing ribs. I have … Continue reading
I managed to sneak in a couple hours of work this afternoon. Tammy was getting Acacia ready to go to “Nanas” house so we could have a date night. So, I figured I would try to get a little work done while she was dropping the baby off. Tonight is … Continue reading