It’s time to rivet up the skeleton so that I can mount the wings into their stands to finish up the work. I was going to do the riveting in the stand, but it appears it would be easier to do if I laid the wing on the table and … Continue reading
Tonight was pretty much a duplicate of last night. I started out by assembling the leading edge and the trailing edge skins to the skeleton and match drilling everything. Making sure to drill out the holes along the bottom to a #30 hole where the skins overlap the spars. Once … Continue reading
I am kind of running out of tasks to do until the Alumaprep and Alodine get here. I was able to get a little work done tonight though, only about an hours worth. The next step in the instructions tells us to match drill the A-704 nose ribs, fluting the … Continue reading
I managed to get down to the shop and spend a little over an hour finishing up the right flap skeleton. There really wasn’t much left to do, but I wanted to knock it out while I had some free time. I started out by clamping down the FL-706A doubler … Continue reading
It’s been a while since I was able to get downstairs and do a little work in the airplane factory. I was focusing on completing some internal giveback project for work, which took up some build time. The right flap isn’t going to take as much time to build for … Continue reading
I found a Harbor Freight 25% off coupon, so what better time to buy a bench vise 🙂 I wound up with a semi-cheap 5″ vise that should do all I need it to. I drilled some mounting holes in my work bench and bolted it down and got right … Continue reading
Tonight I continued working on the flap, with the session starting off by measuring the piano hinge for the flaps, an then clecoing it on. I picked out the proper piano hinge, AN257-P3 and then cut it to the prescribed length of 56″. I think Vans has us cut it … Continue reading
Today, I decided to go ahead and start building the flaps. It was a toss up between ailerons and flaps, and I didn’t want to fool with stiffeners right now, so flaps won. I am skipping ahead to the flaps because its too cold to ProSeal fuel tanks, and I … Continue reading
After completing all of the rib prep, I was finally ready to start doing the skeleton assembly and match drilling for the wings. The plans tell us to be very cautious of not using tank ribs for leading edge ribs, so I made sure to sort out the two and … Continue reading
I managed to get a TON of work done tonight, and worked a straight 4 hours on the section of plans titled “Preparing the Left Elevator”. In a nut shell, I completely build entire left elevator, and have it disassembled so all the parts can be deburred, and the edges … Continue reading