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Priming the elevator parts

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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

Bring in the deburring experts

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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

Match drilling

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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

Quick Sunday session

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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

Elevator Day

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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

Guess what!?! More riveting

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Pictures don’t do it a great deal of justice because the dimples appear to be WAY more warped than they are. These skins actually feel almost flawless – I’m certainly happy with how this surface is turning out. I have now finished all of the forward spar flange rivets and… Read More »Guess what!?! More riveting

Riveting like a madman

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Today I had to use the phrase, “Hey babe – will you come here and help me find out where I’m bleeding from?” Yup. Picture below. Some some blood pooling on the manual (and I spared you the image of the larger section – this is just to give you… Read More »Riveting like a madman