TLDR Reamed all holes on horizontal stabilizer skin Uncleco-ed HS assembly, cleaned, and put it back together Riveted HS assembly Details Reaming and cleaning Following the advise from ...

Tech Counseling Bob from EAA chapter 338 came over and spent an hour or so in my garage this afternoon. He looked at my work and answered many questions. I learned a LOT just by talking to him. It...

while waiting for EAA technical counselor visit, I decided to start on Elevator. Today and yesterday I tackled ‘EL-ASS-001-C-F-0’ sheet 8 and 10. Elevator spar center rib The main spar was actual...

I spent many hours in the last few days to prepare the skin for the horizontal stabilizer. Dimpling After cleaning, the first problem I ran into is dimpling. The DRDT could not reach a few holes ...

Today I fully removed the plastic wrapping from both horizontal skin. Since it was already in the evening, I was too lazy to do the clean/rinse dance. I think I will leave it to tomorrow maybe. I ...

Today I spent some time to rivet the HS spar assembly together, happily marked HS-ASS-001-C-F-0 sheet 5 complete. Corner rivets Several rivets were very close to the edge of the spar, and my Milw...

Today I continued my journey of horizontal stabilizer spar, HS-ASS-001-C-F-0 sheet 4, 5. Clecoing The parts are the longest I have dealt with so far, I cleaned out my work desk to make space and ...

Following the countersink mistake I made a few weeks ago, I ordered and received the replacement angle HS-ANG-001-X-E-2. With rudder finished and VS blocked partially by the defective part, I swit...

I started on vertical stabilizer (VS-ASS-001-C-F-0-A-6 sheet 18, 19) before the new year and continuced this week. First I identified the parts, dimpled, cleaned and primed everything as instructe...

LET THERE BE LIGHT! In the first week of the new year I am jumping between a few different projects, and today I installed the tail light, and the rudder is officially complete. I’ve done solde...