Author Archives: pclifton

Last night, I mentioned thinking about going ahead and building a rotisserie for the fuselage, and I hadn’t changed my mind by the time I left work today – so I stopped by Harbor Freight on the way home and … Continue reading →

Finally, with the fuselage back upright, I can start moving forward through the construction manual again. I’d figured I’d get the cockpit rails riveted – or mostly riveted – tonight, but there ended up being more small things to do … Continue reading →

It’s done! I got a bit ahead of myself last night be declaring all the annoying riveting to be done. It turned out there were still some challenging spots left, most notably the rivets at the lower aft end of … Continue reading →

We continue creeping ever closer to getting this riveting done. Tonight we finished up all of the really annoying riveting around the aft seat ribs and also shot a handful of rivets at the rear seat lap belt anchor points. … Continue reading →

So not a whole lot of interest to report here, just more and more riveting. Tonight we worked on the rivets at the aft end of the seat rib assembly, and I think these are probably the most tedious ones … Continue reading →

Josie wasn’t feeling well tonight, so rather than do any riveting, I decided to work on some of the replacement parts I got from Van’s last week. First I separated the floor support angles and final-drilled all the holes. I … Continue reading →

So tonight was kind of a turning point, I think. Two-person riveting so far has been an often-frustrating experience; it seemed like Josie was just completely unable to get a handle on using the rivet gun in moderation, resulting in … Continue reading →

Not much to report, we’re just continuing to slowly work our way through the riveting, a bit at a time. Tonight we shot most of the rivets at the joint between the mid bottom skins and the aft bottom skin. … Continue reading →

So when I built out the in-flight adjustable rudder pedal assembly a few weeks back, I made the mistake of cutting the release cable too short. Since there was no urgent need to fix that, I simply put the needed … Continue reading →

My main goal for today was to get the gear legs primed; as I mentioned last night, this would hopefully prevent me from getting hung up this week or next weekend when I was ready to work on the gear. … Continue reading →