Besides the pre-drilled and pre-formed parts, you sometimes have to create specific (mostly smaller) parts from “raw-material”. In this case it are spacers, that fill up the gap between some ribs and the seat bulkhead. The reason is that all the ribs are the same, where the distance to the […]
Since the surface area of the tail skin is quite large, it took a considerable amount of time (and paint) to get it primed. In the evening I took an hour cleco everything together. All the parts are dimpled, even the J-channels. The bottom cleco’s are harder to set. Last […]
With all the rivet holes of the tail side skins and the J-channels match-drilled, I can now dimple the skins, J-channels and bulkheads and prepare them for priming. I use the DRDT-2 for the big area’s and the squeezer for the edges I cannot reach (because of he form of […]
Some big Skin parts of the tail part of the Fuselage are going to be match-drilled today. The nice part of these “big parts” is that it seems as great progress. Once the Bulkheads are clecoed to the bottom skin, I can insert the J-channels (stringers) in the Bulkheads and […]
With the Bulkheads and J-channels) primed, I started clecoing and riveting them together. Starting with the 708 Bulkhead (this is the one aft of the seats bulkhead). The plan says you should NOT rivet the 728 channel (that is the vertical piece), not sure why but let’s leave that clecoed […]
After a short vacation in Austria, I started with cleaning up the Bulkhead parts for priming. This mainly consists of deburring, scuffing (with Scotch Brite pads), sanding the edges and degreasing. There are a lot of parts to prepare and prime, so it took an entire day to do all […]
The Longerons are the main angels that go from the firewall all the way to the horizontal stabilizer. Although they are part of the Fuselage, they are delivered as part of the Wing-kit, because it is the only kit that can hold this length. Also if you cut them too […]
After riveting the firewall, main bulkhead and the seat bulkhead, I decided to de all the other bulkheads in one swoop. Mainly because priming is an overhead. This bulkhead is the one immediately after the seat bulkhead. They are numbered F-706 to F-712 (which is the last one). Almost all […]
Because there are only a few parts to be primed on the Main Bulkhead, I decided to prime both the Main Bulkhead parts and the Seat Bulkhead parts. After the priming session, I started to assemble and rivet both Bulkheads together with my dad. The Main Bulkhead was easy, because […]
I didn’t finish the main Bulkhead yet, the main part is the Wing Spar attach-block, which is anodized Aluminum. There are only a few parts that require priming, so I decided to continue with the next Bulkhead and prime the parts of both in one session. Priming requires some preparation […]