Author Archives: pclifton

OK, finally back to work. I’ve been a bit lazy this past week, in addition to trying to get a head start on being ready for out trip up to Oshkosh. I started today by working on repeating all the … Continue reading →

OK, so this wasn’t even a real work night when you get down to it. I wanted to get out and get stuff done since I didn’t do anything over the weekend, but I was also kind of beat after … Continue reading →

Didn’t get a lot done tonight. For some reason I was dog tired, but I still managed to go get a little something done. There are two holes that go through the forward floor, the longeron, and finally the outboard … Continue reading →

Started out tonight by finishing up some work on the upper longeron gussets from last night. The tabs on the gussets need to be radiused a bit to clear the center section bulkhead, so I took care of that. Another … Continue reading →

First up tonight were some reinforcement plates for the center section. These will (presumably) go under the skins at the center section to provide some additional structure and help distribute the loads from the main spar carry-through. These plates are … Continue reading →

Whew…another good, productive day. I started out by continuing with riveting on the seat rib assembly. First the floor angles get riveted to the ribs, which is easy with the squeezer. Then the forward and aft ribs get riveted in … Continue reading →

Today, I went straight out to the garage after getting home from work, so I could go ahead and shoot primer on the pieces I cleaned last night. I gave them all a god acetone wipedown before priming since they’d … Continue reading →

Back at it again tonight. I spent most of the night deburring the edges of all the ribs and stuff. Mostly this consisted of running the bench grinder for about an hour straight, with some work with the vixen file … Continue reading →

Ah, the drudgery part of building: deburring everything in sight. Tonight I removed all the clecoes I’d installed previously and went to town deburring. First I did the bottom skins; I cleaned the edges, deburred the holes, and then did … Continue reading →

Not a lot of work tonight. My main goal for the evening was to finally go back and watch the 2015 webinar on flying into Oshkosh. The webinar was held the same night I was buying a car, so I … Continue reading →