Attach brake caliper to starboard axle. Mount tire to wheel.
Apr 20
1.3hrs
Second brake caliper and tire mounted.;
1.1hrs
Raised fuselage to attach wheels.
Apr 21
1.4hrs
Fitting up of the rubber engine mounts. Figuring out the steps to making the cowling.
Apr 22
1.3hrs
Greased all four wheel bearings. Mounted first wheel onto brake/axle.
Apr 23
1.6hrs
Secured bungees with wire (840lb test) to keep landing gear in place. Started attached second wheel onto brake/axle.
Apr 24
1.2hrs
Finished attached brakes and wheels.
Apr 25
1.8hrs
Secure gear legs with rachet straps and wire cable. Attached engine mount with bolts. Slid RIGHT in!
Apr 26
.8hrs
CAD work - design, and thinking of the steps for fabrication of the cowling.
Apr 28
1.1hrs
More design of the cowling. Trying to make the air intake at the bottom look right.
1.1hrs
More design of the air intake for the cowling.
Apr 29
1.1hrs
Design of the air intake. (am I wasting my time... maybe wait until it's on the biplane before fleshing it out)
Apr 30
1hr
More colwing design work. Actually took the cowl ring and placed it over the pseudo firewall/air intake to see how it looked. Not bad...
Apr 31
2.1hrs
Wrenching it. Taking out the bolts that attach the engine mount brackets (the ones used for the Cessna 195) so that I can use those holes (and maybe bolts) to attach engine to my engine mount)
May 2
1.1hrs
Continued wrenching. Second engine mount bracket off of the engine.
1.0hrs
Third and final engine mounting bracket off of the radial engine.
May 3
3hrs
Carbon Fiber and fiberglass research; articles and videos.
May 4
3hrs
More research on carbon fiber and fiberglass.
May 5
1.5hrs
More research on carbon fiber and fiberglass.
May 6
1.5hrs
Design of air intake for the cowl ring. Figuring it all out.
May 7
1.3hrs
Design of air intake.
1hr
More figuring out on how to make the air intake and what it will look like.
May 8
1.5hrs
Cutting foam to make plug for air intake on cowl ring.
May 11
1hr
Study up on making fiberglass and carbon fiber parts.
May 12
1.1hrs
Start cutting masonite pattern. Not happy with the paper patterns I was using for the air intake.
May 14
1.6hrs
Tweaking air intake pattern before using.
May 15
1.1hrs
More pattern work.
May 23
1.4hrs
Figuring best way to lift engine. Started sanding cowl ring with 60 grit.
May 24
1.4hrs
More sanding of cowl ring...
May 25
1.8hrs
More sanding of the cowl ring...
May 26
1.5hrs
Yep, more sanding...
May 27
1.6hrs
More sanding...
May 28
1.4hrs
Sanding... now with 100, then 220 grit.
May 29
1.7hrs.
More sanding with 220 grit.
May 30
1.8hrs
More 220 grit sanding.
May 31
.6hrs
Finshed up with the 220 grit sanding...
Jun 2
1.3hrs
Started sanding with 320 grit.
Jun 3
.9hrs
Finished sanding with the 320 grit. Tested fitted the cowling... kinda sorta.
Jun 4
2.4hrs
Back working on the upper wing center section. Looking over plans, figuring it out again. Started priming the brackets for it.
Jun 5
1.6hrs
Sand and prime UWCS brackets.
Jun 6
1.2hrs
Prime and paing UWCS brackets.
Jun 9
1.2hrs
Sanding brackets, review plans for UWCS.
Jun 11
2.3hrs
Clear Coat holes in spars, ribs, and grab handle. Sand main tank straps.
Jun 13
1hr
Reaming spar holes, painging fitting for UWCS.
Jun 14
.6hrs
Painting brackets.
Jun 15
1.2hrs
Sand, paint UWCS brackets.
Jun 17
2.3hrs
Worked on hand-fitting up lower ply on UWCS.
Jun 18
1.8hrs
Fixed up my "doing it by hand" fitting of ply and used a straight-edge and router.
Jun 21
1.9hrs
Glued and tacked bottom ply center section of UWCS.
Jun 22
1.2hrs
Cleaned up excess glue, set brads, filled indents where brads are with wood putty.
Jun 23
.9hrs
Sand putty, and excess glue
Jun 24
.9hrs
Test fitted painted brackets. Fit beautifully!
Jun 25
2.2hrs
Figured out bolt lengths and shape of lock washer.
Jun 27
1.7hrs
Started making custom wasthers to keep the head of the bolt holding the compression tube from turning. Printer not working... tried doing it by hand. Not happy with it.
Jun 28
.8hrs
Bought printer cord so that I could link my computer to the printer (Wifi connection - computer wasn't finding printer). Printed out CAD drawings. Drilled and cut first of four custom washers.
Jun 30
1.3hrs
Two more washers made.
Jul 1
2.4hrs
Final two washers made (actually made four to make the two).
Jul 2
2hrs
Re-made one of the washers. Sprayed on primter coat. Also... figuring out the additional hole in the spar brackets on the uwcs. Plans only showed a hole in one of the two flanges on the bracket.
Jul 3
2.1hrs
Painted finish coat on washers. Figured out the hold in the second flange on each of the four brackets. Modified the existing CAD with the holes. Printed out CADs and taped them in place.
Jul 4
1.7hrs
Drilled 2nd flange n all four WUCS spar brackets. Touched up paint.
Jul 5
.8hrs
Sanded brakets and custom washers. Revisited how to put the UWCS all together.
Jul 6
1.8hrs
Repainted spar brackets (chips from working on them) and re-installed on spars.
Jul 9
1.2hrs
More review of UWCS plans.
Jul 10
1.7hrs
Something is up with the outer ribs on UWCS. One hole in BOTH aren't aligning with the brackets. Strange! Scratching my head. Tomorrow... I'll make sure that they are on the correct side and then re-drill.
Jul 11
1.1hrs
Confirmed then re-drilled outer ribs.
Jul 12
1hr
Figuring out outer ply and the notching.
Jul 14
1.3hrs
Routed/cut both outer plywood pieces for UWCS.
Jul 16
1.4hrs
Notched both outer plywood pieces.
Jul 18
1.4hrs
Aligned and drilled both nose ribs for UWCS.
Jul 19
1.5hrs
Fitting pieces of UWCS together. Test fitting.
Jul 10
1.4hrs
Dry run of using hardware on UWCS.
Jul 21
1.4hrs
Took (banged out) off two existing bushings. Tried fixing (they were scored). Made two new ones.
Jul 23
1.1hrs
Meaured bolt lengths for UWCS again.
Jul 28
1.4hrs
Figured out the hardware (again) or the UWCS with corrections. Found 1/8inch Sitka to make the UWCS tank supports.
Jul 29
1.1hrs
Began cutting the Sitka strips to length.
Jul 30
1.3hrs
Made jig to mold the 1/8inch Sitka strips to make the tank supports.