Author Archives: pclifton

Tonight I pulled apart the mid side skin assemblies and deburred the skins and the bulkhead/armrest parts. That’s it. Exciting, eh?

Tonight I set out to repair the bulkhead flange where I found elongated holes the other night. I decided to simply fabricate a new flange unit and rivet it to the bulkhead web. Not excessively complicated, but a little tedious … Continue reading →

Actually, countersinking is done for the time being. Tonight I took care of all the rivet holes in the side webs of both upper longerons. Not especially challenging, just tedious. After that was done, I decided to do some more … Continue reading →

There sure are a lot of holes on this airplane. I got started in mid afternoon, after did a bit of kayaking in the morning. Pretty much went straight to work on the countersinking, since I’d marked up everything already. … Continue reading →

Man, there’s a whole lot of prep work to be done. The first half-page or so of the instructions here specify a bunch of places that need to be countersunk to accept dimpled skin parts. When I looked at this … Continue reading →

Well, not exactly a hugely productive day, but at least I did something…which is more than I can say for, oh, the past month. Funny how these little breaks happen…you decide to skip a day, then a couple more, and … Continue reading →

Not a lot of time tonight, but I ‘m finally back to semi-actual work; that is, doing stuff from the instructions instead of dealing with throttle stuff. Tonight I just removed the forward and mid left side skins, followed by … Continue reading →

For real this time, it’s done. To start off with tonight, I decided to try making a new support angle out of sheet stock, hoping that with a tighter corner bend, I could get away with locating it a bit … Continue reading →