I want to wait as long as possible with attaching the 3 rear fuselage top skins with rivets, you never know… This however leads to a problem because there is one rivet on each side that will be obscured when the rail-brackets of the sliding canopy are attached. This “impossible” rivet is to attach the front top skin to rib 1. After some thoughts a found a simple solution.
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Remake side rail joining plate
The joining plate had 1 hole that was misaligned with the side rail angles which needed some attention.
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Conduits in arc
Like in the wings and RF I installed conduits in the arc, these are for the interior lights and GPS antenna.
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Rivet inside arc skin.
Time to shoot some rivets.
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Redesign joining angles
Since most of the holes of the joining angles didn’t align I decided to remake these parts. This blog entry is the work of multiple days last week.
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Rudder pedals
After the test fit of the rudder pedals I took them apart for painting the inside dark gray, time to reassemble the pedals.
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Side rails
Today’s task was installing the side rails.
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Paint session
Nothing special, just a couple of hours painting several parts.
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Eyebolts and pushrods
I received the new eyebolts from TAF because non of my original eyebolts were okay according to SB0020. With the new eyebolts I could install the pushrods.
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Flap motor installation
Installing rudder cables sleeves and flap motor.
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