I had an excellent time away over a super long Labor Day weekend getaway with some wonderful people. It certainly made it easier to be away from the RV (as easy as that can be of course). I took an overnight red eye to get home and was pretty jet… Read More »Welcome home riveting hour (100th hour!)
After all that work match drilling, deburring, and priming it is time to get back to the really fun part – assembling it all permanently with rivets. This really is the fun part, if not the most challenging. You really do need to keep focused on the task at hand… Read More »Riveting the elevators
Not a whole ton of work done this evening, and even less work done on exciting and unique titles for posts related to dimpling. But I’m sure both will come together someday in a miraculous way. Already rambling – off to a bad start here. I was not able to… Read More »Awww… look at those dimples!
If you haven’t locked on to a theme yet, stick with me, it’ll happen. What comes after priming? Dimpling of course! With Anne still being out of town and plenty of personal enthusiasm towards watching the eclipse today, I was only able to put a little bit of time into… Read More »Dimpling elevator parts
We had a gorgeous morning to prime today. I woke up with Anne as she had an early flight out and just headed down to the garage to get everything set up for spraying the primer. As always, one of the most time consuming and dirty tasks of priming is… Read More »Priming the elevator parts
It is always nice to be reminded of the reason you undertake a challenge such as building an airplane, and today was one of those days. Even in the face of monotonous deburring, having my family around to help out not only took the edge off (deburring pun! Boom!) but… Read More »Bring in the deburring experts
It was inevitable – the match drilling marathon began. Van’s recommends keeping every single hole clecoed on the front and rear spars of the elevator while you are match drilling the skins. This means pulling out a cleco, drilling the hole, marking it as drilled, replacing the cleco, then moving… Read More »Match drilling
Not a whole lot to write about, but I jumped out to the garage for an hour just to keep the momentum going. I was able to get the elevator horns installed as well as the trailing edge pieces cut to size and deburred for both sides of the elevator.… Read More »Quick Sunday session
After a long week of not being able to put too much time into the plane, I was able to really hunker down this weekend and set my hands to the elevators. I was pretty much able to get them completely assembled and match drilled (but not the skins –… Read More »Elevator Day
Today was quite the marathon day. The family went out to run a bunch of errands so I got to put in a full day out in the garage. It was excellent. I would have probably got a lot more done if I did not end up spending 45 minutes… Read More »Finish up horizontal stabilizer and start elevators