Vertical stab is finally completed with hinges and forward skin attached. Boelube on screws helps a lot attaching the forward skin. Could not find how much torque is required for the hinges bolts. The bolts go into nutplates. They seem …
First day of 2015! Happy New Year everyone!!! Replace the crooked rivets on the nut-plate mentioned in the previous post. Clecoed the skin to the skeleton and riveted the skin. Finally I have some components that look like aircraft’s parts …
Had a couple of hours attaching nutplates to the vertical stabilizer skin. have done most of them. Considering drilling out one of the bottom nutplate and re-doing the rivets as I’m not quite happy with the way rivets got squeezed. The …
Spend couple of hours preparing the Vertical stab skins. De-burring, drilling and dimpling. Nothing fancy. Had to modify the standard 3/32 dimple dies to get nutplates dimpled without damaging the central part of them. Their ears appear to be warped …
Thanks to Christmas, I have finally got some time for my plane. Went all the way from page 06-03 to page 06-05 All the components come together really well. The DVD I bought from www.homebuilthelp.com comes really handy. Found it challenging …
Started building Vertical Stab rear spar. Cut and deburried some components. Ready for drilling
The building has started I put together the vertical stab hinges. First error – I used wrong rivets (shorter) on one of the hinges. Spend 1.5 hours to remove the rivets and put the right ones. It most probably would …
Unpacked and inventoried all the content of the crate. Had to build an overhead shelf to store long pieces of the tail skin.
The tail kit has arrived. I’ve ordered air-freight, but good people from DHL mixed something up and sent it by boat. It took 6 weeks instead of two to get to Australia. Errare Humanum Est Most importantly the kit is …
The tail kit is ordered. DHL people promised to take good care of it and deliver the crate to Australia within 2 weeks. Waiting impatiently