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Author Archives: pclifton
Shop wheels, engine accessories
Next up was removing the engine and mount from the fuselage to give me some room to start working on accessories, as well as getting into firewall planning. Sliding this whole assembly off the fuselage and onto the fixture I … Continue reading
Posted in Firewall Forward, Fuselage
Hours Logged: 3
Main gear install, part 1
It’s another one of those nights…I came into this one expecting to spend maybe a couple hours total in the shop and finish the evening with an airplane sitting on actual gear legs. It didn’t quite go like that, but … Continue reading
Posted in Fuselage
Hours Logged: 1.5
Finishing tail spring refinishing
More good progress this weekend. Over the course of yesterday and today, I finished redoing the tail spring and other related parts. Saturday morning was primer, Saturday afternoon was flat black, and this morning was matte clear coat. Everything turned … Continue reading
Posted in Fuselage
Hours Logged: 3
Tail spring refinishing
More punch-list type stuff today. This isn’t strictly necessary for the gear installation, but it’s been bothering me for a couple weeks now. A while back, after having continuing issues with the tail spring rusting, I gave it a good … Continue reading
Posted in Fuselage
Hours Logged: 1
Random prep things
So nothing really worth sharing photos of today, but I got to working on some of the punch-list items prior to installing the gear. First up was actually pulling out the gear mount hardware – I knew that some of … Continue reading
Posted in Fuselage
Hours Logged: 2
Panel labeling done
What I basically settled on for a system (and I use that term loosely) was: Yellow: lighting Red: things that shouldn’t normally be on – in addition to the alt feed above, the start arm switch also gets one of … Continue reading