October 9, 2020
So evidently there are a number of small steps I had yet to approach, so Elevator work continued. Drilled the trim hinge and primed the smaller parts. Next I took on cutting and sanding foam blocks for the edge of the Elevator and Elevator Trim. Those took much longer than I would have expected. Oh and I also scuffed the…
October 8, 2020
Big progress today, all deburring, dimpling and drilling completed. Tomorrow I should be able to start riveting. Woohoo. Nearly made my first major mistake by dimpling the read spar. Thankfully the trim hinge is drilled based on the skin and not the spar. Whew.
October 7, 2020
Finished up the rudder, sans rounding the leading edge. So next up was the Elevator. Made good progress today but damn 3 hours of sanding and deburring, shesh.
October 6, 2020
Well I thought I had a day left to finish the rudder, that was too optomistic given my lack of skills It was still a good day however with a growing skills set with riveting.
October 5, 2020
One of those days where you leave scratching your head because you put the hours in but it doesn’t feel like a lot of progress. Oh well. Worked on the ignition wiring and long wire runs from the panel to the rear avionics tray. Finished up the day priming rudder parts, fingers crossed tomorrow I will have a completed rudder.
October 4, 2020
I ran out of time in Minnesota to get all the wiring of the panel finished. Today I knocked off the avionics wiring and ELT. There were of course the occasional brain slip that required rework but I still walked away feeling good about the progress.
October 3, 2020
Took a break from the Rudder to get the ELT and GTR20 Remote Comm mounted to the rear avionics tray. Also, worked on the center console where I mounted the rear passenger headset jack and USB charger, plus the pilot/co-pilot jacks. Finished up the day prepping for tomorrows work on the avionics wiring.
October 2, 2020
Productive day with no major screw-ups requiring rework. Whew. Finished prepping all the parts; cleco, drill, debur, dimple, countersink. Lots of steps to get to the point of riveting. By late afternoon I pounded some rivets. Should have the rudder finished up in one more work day.
October 1, 2020
Missing parts for the Vertical Stabilizer, missing parts for the Horizontal Stabilizer. So I started with the Rudder. Went smoothly until I realized that I was missing R-1007 brackets. After searching I figured out they are in a back ordered bag. So I made my own after taking measurements from a completed RV-10. Ugh, slow down already…
September 30, 2020
Everything is now consolidated, I had rivets in probably 100 different bags, now just one bag per size. Same for the other hardware. Also all the parts are labeled so when the plans call out for a specific part number I won’t be searching for which bag and kit to look. That should make the build go much smoother. Plus…
September 29, 2020
Whew, so many bags of nuts, bolts, pieces, and parts. A disappointing part of the process is there are many bags with the same parts. So much of today was consolidating the same parts. Quick build fuselage and wings are 100% counted and thankfully no new missing parts.
September 28, 2020
So today I planned to start the empennage but on the first page I found a missing part. In one of the bags there was supposed to be the three different VS brackets. Unfortunately I had two VS-1010-P parts. Ugh. A call to Van’s put me on the list for the replacement part, which should have already been delivered to…