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Continued riveting the stab
Yesterday I continued to rivet the skeleton together and began riveting the skins to the spars and ribs. Here you an see the middle nose and main ribs clecoed to the skin. The nose rib gets flush riveted to the skin. This was super difficult to get the skin to lay flat against the…
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Primed and began riveting stab & Happy Thanksgiving!
This morning I cleaned, and primed all the internal structure. I’m using a self etching primer that’s super easy to use. I also primed the rivet holes of the interior of the skins. The paper used to ship the parts is perfect for painting on. I then used a heat gun to dry…
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Deburred and Dimpled H-Stab
Today I spent 4 hours deburring, edge finishing, surface prepping and dimpling the horizontal stabilizer skeleton and skins. I did all of the dimpling on the ribs and spar using the pneumatic squeezer and the -3 dimple set. I then used the DRDT-2 to dimple the skins. I used cushions on either side…
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Disassembled and Prepared Horizontal Stab.
No pictures today, I didn’t get much time in the shop with a long work day and a late meeting. I did get enough time to disassemble the stab and get it ready for dimpling and priming. Hopefully I can put in some good work tomorrow.
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Match drilled Horizontal Stab
Today I finished the assembly on the H-Stab, right side and left sides have been match drilled and are ready for dimpling. This was after wrestling the second skin onto the skeleton. I then lined up and clamped the center ribs for drilling. These were then removed, deburred and then clecoed in place…
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Horizontal stab
Today was a big day, I spent about 8 hours on the stab. I finished smoothing out the front spar reinforcing bars and match drilling everything to the spars, along with the spar doublers. I then clecoed the Stab skeleton together, match drilled the rib holes to the spars and deburred the…
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Empennage kit day 1
My empennage kit arrived yesterday, and this morning I woke up bright an early to begin the unboxing experience. This a just a small fraction of the parts that are in the kit, but I went through the packing list and marked each item with a check as I found it and inventoried it. Here’s…
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Ordered Empannage Kit
Here’s the garage all done (the pile in the middle is ‘give-away’) and with the garage empty again I figure why not place the order for the tail! The shelves in the back right are for inventorying items as I get them and also tool storage and miscellaneous items (currently storing my old RC airplane…
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Finished (95%) the workshop and Vans Practice Toolbox kit
It’s been a few weeks of cleaning the garage and organizing everything onto some new shelves we got so that I can finally finish setting up the workshop. I also got my Isham Toolkit delivery last weekend and spent a little while checking out all the tools that come with it. But today I put…
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Finished my Workbenches
Today I finished my second workbench, and did some organization and clean up of the garage. Short day today, but glad I knocked out that second bench. Really love the design and how sturdy they are. There probably won’t be any updates for a while, Im waiting for the tools to deliver and then ill…
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