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5/2/2005 |
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Half hour of deburring. Just not into it right now. Looking forward to the
builder motivation after the breakfast this weekend. I'm kind of at the
point where I think I could finish the rudder with just about a day's effort
and could probably get through the elevators with another couple weekends at
the most. Then what would I do? |
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5/3/2005 |
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More deburring both the holes on the inside of the skins, and all of the
remaining edges on the piece parts. |
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5/7/2005 |
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No time on the project, but Katy and I did go out to the EAA105 Breakfast at
Twin Oaks Airport. While there, I went up with Brian in his RV-6A, N38155.
Nice ride, man it seems fast versus the 172. Brian let me fly the straight
and level, a couple 360s, and we did a touch and go over at Aurora before
heading back to Twin Oaks. |
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5/9/2005 |
0.5h
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Deburring. |
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5/10/2005 |
0.5h
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Deburring. |
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5/11/2005 |
0.5h
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A little deburring, but primarily messing with the blue stuff on the skins.
I also met with Ed Haylee (sp?) who is building a RV-10 fairly close by in
the neighborhood. Nice to know others are building around here. |
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5/12/2005 |
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EAA105 Chapter Meeting out past Banks at Doug S.'s shop. He's countersinking
on the skins. Wicked. Won't be trying that myself, but it sure looks nice. I
also realized for the first time how much you have to rough up the skins to
paint. This makes me think that messing with the lines for the blue stuff is
not really worth it. |
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5/14/2005 |
6h
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EAA Tech councilor visit today. Dan Benua stopped by at 9:00am and we spoke
for about two hours. Found a few items that need some repeat attention. Four
rivets on the Front spar attach for the Horizontal Stabilizer, and one rivet
on the top left skin of the Horizontal Stabilizer that looks like it was
under dimpled. Wish I had started on the bottom like you are supposed to. =)
With this conversation, I crossed the 100 hours logged against the
project. This is not counting the countless hours I have not logged on my
computer doing "research" and the equally countless hours I have
not logged dreaming.
Throughout the rest of the day with a few stops for food, a short road
trip, and some yard work, I finished deburring everything, including the
edges as demonstrated by Dan. (Yea!) Katy helped me out again, and we worked
our way through dimpling both skins. She then went in and I continued until
I finished all of the remaining rudder pieces. I also countersunk the holes
toward the trailing edge of the two ribs that are impossible to reach to
dimple. With everything done, I'm ready tomorrow to Scotchbrite the parts,
clean them up and prime them. I hope to be able to at least get the stiffeners
riveted in place. |
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5/15/2005 |
3h
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Cleaned the rudder parts with soap and water. Started raining, so there is
not much chance I'm going to get them primed today. Maybe there will be a
break before my folks get here on Wednesday. I hope to be able to put
together part of the rudder with my dad while he is here.
Weather change! Clearing skies and no rain let me get some priming in.
Man these parts looks ugly. My priming skills are just plain bad. I'm
certainly not going to paint the whole thing myself. |
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5/18/2005 |
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My folks arrived in town today. Took the opportunity to show my dad the shop
in the garage and the current progress on the plane. I had saved the easy
back riveting of the stiffeners to the rudder skins so that I could actually
show him something going together. Set a few rivets and even had him do one,
though he was quite concerned about messing it up. Not much chance of that
with the back riveting though. We headed off to dinner after a couple of the
stiffeners, then after dinner I put the rest of them on both skins. Not bad
at all, and the really make a big difference. |
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5/30/2005 |
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Really in a bit of an airplane funk, plus finals, plus review time at work.
Add in a hard disk crash on my home PC last week and the RV project has
taken a back seat. Work is probably going to be slow throughout the summer
as I have a really packed schedule. I spent about an hour today working on
the counter-balance and touching up some primer on the main spar. I also
drilled and dimpled the #10 holes along the top of the skins. |
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