Nov 2021
I did the kit inventory for both the Empennage and Wing first, it took about two days. All in all very happy with the delivery. A few parts are still back ordered but everything was pretty neatly organized.
January 1 2022
I was a little delayed from starting the kit due to life, job, family etc. We had a great Christmas vacation and I jumped right into it. I jumped the gun a little bit and didnt document the horizontal stabilizer (HS) structure very well. I am about 20 hours in and have the HS skeleton prepped, primed and riveted together. I have one skin clecoed on and am waiting on the other side. The directions say to use a stand off to secure the wire, but the kit didnt come with any stand offs so I have to order it. No problem I started work on the elevators.
January 2 2022
I am starting to debur, and cleco the elevators. Once I get all the parts prepped and make sure everything fits. I will disassemble to prep the the parts with Prekote, then prime with a 2 part epoxy primer. I am spraying with a Fuji Minimite3 and it is working great so far. Not sure if I will continue to prime the whole kit. I like the peace of mind but it is a good amount of work.
The first snag I ran into is one of the press fit bushings does not rotate freely, its a bad bearing so I ordered a new one from the factory. No clue how long that process is going to take.
Jan 9th,
I ordered some clamps and hardware from aircraft spruce to clamp the trim servo wire in the horizontal stab (HS). I have that clamped but looking at the wire run I want one more clamp, which I have, but I need a standoff to secure the wire in another location. In the mean time I started working on the Elevators. I spent the week prepping all the parts, Saturday priming them and started assembling the parts Sunday. I need to finish the HS so I can bolt the elevators to the HS while the skin goes on per the directions but I am still waiting on the stand off.
Jan 17th 2022,
Busy week! I received the clamps and standoffs that I needed to finish the Horizontal stabilizer.
I worked more on the elevators but was having a problem with some of the trailing edge holes not lining up by about half a hole width. Luckily, I also had my first EAA technical counselor visit, thanks John, who pointed out that if I just rivet the trailing edge trailer on the other side of the mount where I currently have it riveted the problem is solved.
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