Author Archives: pclifton

Well, this little detour appears to be drawing to a close. With the prep work I did Thursday evening, the only thing left to do today was to start riveting things together. First up was assembling the entire front spar … Continue reading →

No photos tonight, nothing to really see. I tore the stab apart, got the reinforcement and splice angles primed, then finished final-drilling the spar channels and dimpling the necessary holes. Everything is now prepped and ready for riveting!

So tonight I finished up the last bit of major fabrication for this SB/repair job. I initially had some car-related stuff to do after I got home, but still found an hour to spend out in the shop. Tonight’s job … Continue reading →

Good solid day of work, sprinkled in between the usual weekend stuff. I started off this morning by finishing all the drilling on the spar assembly, using the prepunched holes in the doublers and angles to drill through everything. Took … Continue reading →

Busy day. Had a fly-out event for work in the middle of the day, then another thing in the afternoon. Still found some time to get out in the shop, though. Tonight was almost entirely just doing modification work on … Continue reading →

So with new parts in hand, I got right to work this evening. It was a good night for it, too – some rain during the day today seems to have dropped the temperature nicely. The funny thing is, I … Continue reading →

Not logging this as any actual time tonight since it was mostly 15-20 minutes of tinkering around…but today my nice care package from Van’s arrived. New spar channels, reinforcement angles, doublers, and some assorted hardware. The one thing I forgot … Continue reading →

Nothing exciting to report today, no awesome photos or anything. Just drilled out a bunch more rivets and got the right half of the stab torn down. Overall I’ve been happy with how this went, drilling out the rivets was … Continue reading →

As usual, lots of other stuff going on today, including the monthly Houston RV lunch, which went pretty long since we had some out-of-town guests in attendance. But I made good progress on disassembly. My initial plan for the spar … Continue reading →

Finally got started on tearing this thing apart tonight. Over the past few days, I spent a fair amount of time thinking through this process. The main outcome of this was that I decided to go ahead and order my … Continue reading →