Author Archives: pclifton

Interior painting, plans stand thingy

Posted on July 27, 2019 by pclifton

So I’m only logging this as an hour and a half on the build, but there’s a fair bit more time covered here, over the course of the last thee days. Most of this was addressing what’s been sort of … Continue reading →

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Seat floors done (structurally, at least)

Posted on July 24, 2019 by pclifton

No photos tonight, it was just sort of menial work. I riveted the rear seatback hinge half in place, in assembly with the appropriate stiffener. Then there were four nutplates on each seat floor that needed to be riveted – … Continue reading →

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Riveted seat floor stiffeners

Posted on July 24, 2019 by pclifton

Not much to report tonight. I gave the seat floors a good cleaning and back riveted all but one of the stiffeners in place. The one I left iff gets riveted in assembly with the rear setback hinge – that’ll … Continue reading →

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Seat floors ready to be riveted

Posted on July 22, 2019 by pclifton

I did it! Two days in a row of getting up and getting an early start out in the hangar. I started carrying my 6 AM weekday alarm into the weekends about a month ago, but until now I’ve just … Continue reading →

Posted in Fuselage | Hours Logged: 3.5

Some nutplates

Posted on July 21, 2019 by pclifton

Bit more progress today. A lot of the day was taken up with the monthly local RV people lunch, along with some other home-project stuff, but I got up early enough this morning to get some work in, and then … Continue reading →

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Assorted seat floor-related stuff

Posted on July 20, 2019 by pclifton

Back at it again tonight. To start with, I took a look at the construction manual and confirmed I was basically done with the throttle quadrant section. The only remaining steps here are to prime and paint the throttle quadrant … Continue reading →

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Seriously? More throttle quadrant stuff?

Posted on July 19, 2019 by pclifton

Yes, really. Just one minor detail though. Through all the fitting of the new three-lever quadrant, the one thing still left to do was to replace the pivot bolt with a longer one. Since I added a spacer to tweak … Continue reading →

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Throttle cover plate filler wrap-up

Posted on May 4, 2019 by pclifton

So technically, this work session tool place over two days. I started working on this stuff last night and got about half an hour in before a certain dog decided to eat a large piece of rope and we had … Continue reading →

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Throttle cover plate gap filler thingy

Posted on May 1, 2019 by pclifton

So, as mentioned last time, I decided to fab up a spacer to fill the unsightly gap between the throttle quadrant and the cover plate. Last time I said I was working a Spruce order, well, I actually ended up … Continue reading →

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OK fine, some more throttle tinkering

Posted on April 24, 2019 by pclifton

Had a little time tonight, so I went out and did some thinking about dealing with that unsightly gap on the forward throttle quadrant. I posted about my problem on VAF but I’ve gotten no responses, so I dunno if … Continue reading →

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