Now
that all the priming is done the fun begins. Unfortunately I'll
only get to devote a small bit of time to the plane today… so
lets get to it!
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(10-18 step 2): First
up, finish the F-1011 bulkhead that I started last night. I had
planned on all my shop heads facing the same direction, but it turned
out that the 4 rivets used to attach the bulkhead stiffener that are
right next to the horizontal stabilizer attachment bars didn't have
enough clearance to get the flush squeezer set in there. So those
4 are turned around the other direction... oh well, points off for my
show plane ;-)
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(10-19 step 2): Next up was the attaching the horizontal stabilizer attachment angle to the F-1010 bulhkhead.
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While
attaching the angle I noticed this crack in the bulkhead [sigh]…
time for a bit of surgery. Once smoothed out, it was alodined.
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(10-19 step 1):
Now THIS is the sign of an excited woman! Hasn't even taken
the time to get dressed yet and she's out in the garage wondering what
she can do to help! Here she's dimpling the nutplates for the
cover plates and the rudder cable fairings. Once done I helped
her attach them to the side skins.
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| (10-19 step 4): Last
thing we did was to quickly glue the rudder cable snap bushings into
the Rudder cable bracket that'll get attached to the F-1008 frame. |
| Ok… I know I said "the last thing"… well, after
getting home from work I wasn't quite ready for bed… or was it
excitement about working on the plane ;-) Anyway… we
decided to get back to it! |
(10-21 step 1 & 2): Since
it was late I was looking for things I could rivet with the squeezer
and not disturb the neighbors with the rivet gun. Moving ahead in
the plans I found I could take care of the bellcrank ribs and
angles. I attached the nutplates to the angles, and then the
angles to the ribs.
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(10-20 step 1): Wanting to do just a bit more I started clecoing together the main assembly in preparation for riveting the skins.
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