Author Archives: pclifton

Got my little package from Van’s while I was at work today, so I figured I’d get those parts ready to prime tonight. It’s been almost two years(!) since I messed with the spar reinforcements for the first time, so … Continue reading →

Started out with some miscellaneous small tasks tonight. First and foremost, I still needed to drill out the rivets holding my ruined angle piece to the aileron hinge bracket. If I was smart, I would have done this before ordering … Continue reading →

Not a lot to report tonight, Josie was able to help me move the left wing to the bench so I could squeeze the top skin-rear spar rivets. That concludes riveting on the top skins, with the exception of a … Continue reading →

I was originally going to work on the skin-spar rivets for the left wing today, but Josie pulled a muscle or something in her back yesterday, so I couldn’t really ask her to help move that wing to the workbench. Instead … Continue reading →

Kind of a token night of work this time. I considered taking the night off, but I like the feeling of momentum I have on the project right now, so I figured I’d at least do a little bit. What … Continue reading →

As planned, I went in and left work early today. Got home not too long after 5, changed, and went right to work on the wing cart. The tough part of this is that, since I was recycling the bases … Continue reading →

Tonight I just went out, inspected the rivets we shot last night, and marked the few that needed to be shot a little more. All told it was maybe 20 or so, not bad at all. It would have been … Continue reading →

We jumped right into skin riveting after dinner tonight. Not really a lot to comment on, just more of the same stuff from the last couple of times. Only difference is that we got through the rest of the right … Continue reading →

Unsurprisingly, the main task of the day was to keep going on skin riveting. Around early afternoon the left wing was all done: Well, except for those clecos at the bottom. Those are the skin-spar rivets, and they’d be tough … Continue reading →