Author Archives: pclifton

Building the light boards, pt II

Posted on May 30, 2018 by pclifton

So first off, the good news: The board that didn’t want to work right last night is now fixed. As planned, I took the board to work and tried testing it with the multimeter in the lab, but that didn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Electrical, Wings | Hours Logged: 2.5

Building the wingtip light boards, pt I

Posted on May 29, 2018 by pclifton

So, after spending a fair amount of my long weekend alternately catching up on work around the house and being lazy in the air conditioning (since the Houston summer has arrived), today I finally got to work building the FlyLEDs … Continue reading →

Posted in Electrical, Wings | Hours Logged: 4.5

Wingtip light fitting, pt II

Posted on May 25, 2018 by pclifton

Short night again tonight, but I trimmed the other three boards to fit the light coves. Board #1 from last week was where I was timid and took forever, tonight things went a lot faster. It helped that the forward-facing … Continue reading →

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FlyLEDs wingtip light fitting, pt I

Posted on May 16, 2018 by pclifton

Alright, so once again it’s been a couple weeks. You see, a few weekends ago the clutch in Josie’s car gave up the ghost…so of course I said I’d fix it to save her the $1000 mechanic trip…and of course … Continue reading →

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Finished fitting mid cabin covers

Posted on April 18, 2018 by pclifton

Whew…so after a weekend of distractions (and ok, also laziness), I got back to work tonight. The next tasks seemed pretty simple, really. Compared to the left cover, where I had to tinker with the fuel selector mount and locate/cut/drill … Continue reading →

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Fitting left mid cabin cover

Posted on April 14, 2018 by pclifton

So tonight’s update includes a fun bit of black comedy. Last time out, I’d discovered that I couldn’t use one of the screw locations for the left-hand mid cabin cover because there was already a screw for the fuel selector … Continue reading →

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More selector stuff

Posted on April 11, 2018 by pclifton

Aaaand here we have yet another instance of “seemingly simple things gone wrong.” Tonight I had low ambitions; I figured I’d get the selector mount riveted together, temporarily mount it in the fuse, and fit the left mid-cabin cover and … Continue reading →

Posted in Fuselage | Hours Logged: 1

Selector mount priming, flap bearing block drilling

Posted on April 10, 2018 by pclifton

Not a ton of activity tonight, just trying to be doing something basically. I cleaned and primed the parts for the fuel selector mount; well, the angles and spacers at least (no need to prime the alclad mount plate piece). I … Continue reading →

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More fuel selector mount stuff

Posted on April 9, 2018 by pclifton

Welp, not the most productive weekend, but hey, I still did stuff. All my various ordered came in, so I got the bandsaw up and running again. That allowed me to trim the corners off the flap bearing blocks, and … Continue reading →

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Mucking around with fuel selector stuff

Posted on April 4, 2018 by pclifton

Not a ton to report tonight. As I may have mentioned previously, I’ve done as much as I can do with the seat floors until I get some stuff resupplied this week. So tonight I skipped ahead to the next … Continue reading →

Posted in Fuselage | Hours Logged: 1