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
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