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  • Elevator skeleton

    Yesterday I put in a few hours on the skeleton.     Here are all the parts laid out before edge finishing and deburring. The end ribs and counterbalance ribs on the left have already been fluted.     In this photo, all the parts have been edge finished and deburred.     Here is…

  • Finished Stiffeners 

    Tonight I put a couple hours into finishing up he stiffeners. I was hesitant to bend the skins out of the way to back rivet the last rivet in the stiffeners, but in the end all of the rivets turned out perfect!     Here you can see the rivets set in the stiffener. All…

  • Elevator rivets

    While prepping the elevators for riveting I ran out of tape to hold the rivets for back riveting. My personal preference is to prep both elevators before riveting, so it will have to wait until tomorrow. Here you can see the rivets all taped in for the skin stiffeners. The left elevator is sitting in…

  • Elevator

    Tonight I prepped and primed the skin stiffeners for the elevators, also got the trim servo parts primed and riveted. Not much tonight but still making progress.       I cleaned all the parts prior to priming. 

  • Back at it again! 

    After what seems like a couple weeks of very little work on the plane, my uncle came over to help me out and we spent about 3 hours today doing some edge finishing and deburring and surface prep on the elevator stiffeners.  Once that was done I countersunk the holes for the plate-nuts and riveted…

  • More elevator work

    Tonight I spent about half hour prepping the trim servo mounting provisions. Not much to show, but I dimpled the #6 screw holes and prepped the surface for priming. 

  • Continued elevators 

    This evening I finished match drilling and dimpling the elevators and elevator stiffeners, no pictures but pretty routine work. Tomorrow I’ll edge finish and deburr the parts in preparation for priming and riveting. 

  • Finished my last hour of IFR 

    Today I went up with my instructor to get my last hour under the hood before my checkride. Beautiful weather over half moon bay, couldn’t ask for a better way to start the year. Now to finish those elevators… 

  • Began elevators

    Today I cut all the stiffeners to length and clecoed them to the skins. Only spent about an hour today but making a start is key.    

  • Finished rudder

    Today I woke up early and got the trailing edge of the rudder riveted and leading edge rolled. It was good to experience this solo because it was a true test of workmanship and luckily I ended up with a straight trailing edge and round leading edge.     Here you can see that there’s…