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 conselor 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 actuall...

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

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 stablizer 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 l...

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 stablizer (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 instructed...

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...

Happy holidays! Last couple of days I built the rudder assembly (RD-ASS-001-C-F-0-A-6 sheet 23, 24, 25, 26). This is by far the biggest part and most complex part I have built in the kit. I spen...