August 7-8. 2020 Finished up the last few clean up and prep bits on the left lower wing skin and started bucking it into place. Found some foam blocks to help hold it up and gain access. Took a few hours of slow going and we made it about 2/3 of the way through the... Continue Reading →
July 15, 2020 After a few days of looking at really the ugly pushrod tubes, I decided to redo the primer on them. I originally used a paintbrush to put it on, and while it was "primed" it looked terrible. I spent hours with an angle wheel and scotch-brite pads removing all the old primer.... Continue Reading →
July 11 & 12, 2020 We couldn't come up with any good reasons to hold off on riveting the wing skins, so the next couple of days were spent preparing for that. We went through that good old routine of match drilling, deburring, and dimpling the skin for both wings. Both wings prior to putting... Continue Reading →
June 30, 2020 Another long day today, but progress is being made. I started by finishing installing the nut plates for the flap motor side covers so that's done for now. Since the next step in the instructions is to mount the wings and tail, I decided to go back through the drawings starting from... Continue Reading →
June 27, 2020 I spent today cleaning up all the recommendations from the tech advisor inspection. He wanted us to deburr all the empennage skins more thoroughly and re-squeeze every 3/32" rivet we could reach. It took a while but I finished that work on the rudder, the horizontal stab, and the vertical stab -... Continue Reading →
June 24, 2020 Since the left fuel tank has been deemed leak free, I re-attached it to the wing today. The Z brackets don’t line up exactly, but a small dowel and a little prying and it all bolted together ok. All the wiring and other parts came in, so everything is now in the... Continue Reading →
June 23, 2020 OMG MORE NUT PLATES! The rest of the nut plates arrived so I spent another day installing them into the floor. They suck to install, but they’re done and all the floors are removable instead of having to drill out rivets for every annual. Also, we want to add tie-downs in the... Continue Reading →
June 15, 2020 Today was all about wiring. We settled on ½” shark bite PVC for the wiring conduit a while ago. It's lightweight, cheap, and used by quite a few builders. I couldn’t come up with a good way to attach it to the wing ribs until I came across Panduit MHSS-SS-D lightening hole... Continue Reading →
June 14, 2020 With the tech inspection complete, we were finally ready to seal up both of the fuel tanks. Since the sealant is only good for a couple of hours once it's mixed we had to have everything sorted and planned to make the most of our time. First up, to permanently install the... Continue Reading →
June 13, 2020 We had our first tech advisor inspection and overall it went well. He was happy with the general quality, but almost all of our 3/32 rivets are undersized according to our standard measurement gauge. Van’s says in Section 5.0 that they use smaller rivets than normal and that smaller shop heads are... Continue Reading →
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