trim – PH-MNX http://ph-mnx.nl Building and Flying my π in the Sky Fri, 19 Jun 2020 21:00:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.6 http://ph-mnx.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2023/01/cropped-maverick_150-32x32.png trim – PH-MNX http://ph-mnx.nl 32 32 Empennage Fairing http://ph-mnx.nl/2020/06/19/empennage-fairing/ http://ph-mnx.nl/2020/06/19/empennage-fairing/#respond Fri, 19 Jun 2020 21:00:53 +0000 http://ph-mnx.nl/?p=2569 I’m not a docile sheep wearing a Corona-scare face mask, but while sanding and filing fiberglas, I tend to wear a dust mask.

The Empennage Fairing is a tedious part of the build. It’s a more complex form and some builders don’t use the standard fairing in the kit, but construct one themselves.

I don’t have the epoxy/fiberglas skills to go that way, so I’m condemned to sand and drill and then fix stuff again, because I did too much sanding.

The whole Empannage Fairing took me two weeks to get it to the level that I was content with the result.

Good part is that now I do get a feeling for mixing epoxy and flox te fix stuff.

The Empennage is now completely finished, except for the paint job and final assembly once on the airfield.

Time: 8 Hours, Rivets:  0/0  (2020-06-10) Engine Pick Up
Time: 6 Hours, Rivets: 37/0  (2020-06-06)
Time: 5 Hours, Rivets: 37/0  (2020-06-07)
Time: 3 Hours, Rivets:  0/0  (2020-06-13)
Time: 5 Hours, Rivets:  0/0  (2020-06-19)
Time: 4 Hours, Rivets:  0/0  (2020-06-20)
Time: 5 Hours, Rivets:  0/0  (2020-06-21)
Time: 6 Hours, Rivets: 22/2  (2020-06-27)
Time: 6 Hours, Rivets:  8/0  (2020-06-28)

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PH-OBO http://ph-mnx.nl/2017/08/30/ph-obo/ http://ph-mnx.nl/2017/08/30/ph-obo/#respond Wed, 30 Aug 2017 11:00:21 +0000 http://marcelheijmans.net/rv7/?p=99 Today I visited Victor who build the beautiful RV-7A PH-OBO at the Seppe airport (EHSE). My focus was on the workmanship of the empennage. Especially the trim tab finishing had my interest.

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