Author Archives: pclifton

Not much to report tonight. I finished drilling the nutplate holes in the remaining three angle pieces for the gear towers, then went back and countersunk all the nutplate rivet holes. Absent a bit of final prep work, all the … Continue reading →

I’d kind of hoped to get all the nutplate holes drilled tonight on the gear towers, but that didn’t really work out. It was kind of tedious to get stuff lined up on the doublers – just try holding a … Continue reading →

With all the match drilling done on the gear towers, next it’s time to do a bunch of countersinking and dimpling. Actually, I get to do a lot more dimpling here than the plans specify thanks to my removable cover … Continue reading →

Tonight I just caught the left tower up to where I got the right tower on Sunday; cutting the face into three sections, fitting and drilling the doublers, then finally clecoing everything together and getting everything match drilled. The whole … Continue reading →

As mentioned last night, today’s weather was gorgeous, so my main objective was to get the parts for the forward floor and cooling ramp primed. But that took hardly any time at all, so I spent most of the day … Continue reading →

Didn’t get out and working until late in the afternoon today, but I did do my first solo tailwheel flight this morning, so it was still a good day. I started out by continuing prep work on the forward floor … Continue reading →

Started out tonight by breaking out the C-frame and dimpling most of the rivet holes in the firewall. All these holes will get flush rivets on the forward side. There are a handful of the holes that don’t get dimpled, … Continue reading →

Short session tonight, mostly cause I’m tired. I pulled all the angle/reinforcement pieces back off the firewall again, deburring the rivet holes as I went. Nest up was deburring the rivet holes in the firewall itself. Most of these – … Continue reading →

While I’m waiting on my stuff from Spruce to arrive so I can red rill the inboard flap hinges, I went back to work on the firewall. Most of my time tonight was spent deburring all the angles and stuff; … Continue reading →