I actually fabricated some parts from the plans tonight. This section of the plans has us fabricate the tiedown brackets that bolt to the main spar and help secure the aileron bell cranks as well. There was a good bit of fabrication from raw materials so it was pretty much, … Continue reading
I was able to wrap up all of the fuel tank attachment nutplates and the inspection cover nutplates tonight. In the last session, I installed all of the nutplates, and tonight I finished them up by machine countersinking all the screw holes to accept the dimples in their mating metal. … Continue reading
Nut Plates….tons of nutplates. I worked a good 3 hours tonight on nothing else but riveting the nutplates to the top and bottom of the main spars. I think there is something like 150-ish total of these little things that need to go on. I need to get these guys … Continue reading
More Stiffeners!! Tonight I think I should be done with stiffeners at least for a little while (wing kit maybe?). I worked to rivet the last remaining stiffeners on the left elevator, and then moved on to attaching the E-615PP trim support plate. First, I started off by working on … Continue reading
Stiffeners. I swear this plane has more stiffeners in it than skin. Since I am holding off on bonding the trailing edge of the rudder for a few more days, I decided to move on to the elevators and start riveting the stiffeners on. This will help get me to … Continue reading