Drilled 3/8inch holes and rough cut, then ground down outside shape of all four center parts for the 3-piece brackets.
Jan 4
1.2hrs
Started filing and bending motor mount bracket pieces.
Jan 5
.7hrs
More filing and bending of motor ount bracket pieces.
Jan 7
1.8hrs
Cut out additional bracket blank. Filed and bent another bracket.
Jan 9
1.1hrs
Bent third, drilled 4th bracket.
Jan 10
.5hrs
Last center motor mount bracket bent to shape.
Jan 20
1.3hrs
Two side bracket pieces filed and bent.
Jan 30
1.2hrs
Bent three side bracket pieces. One of those cracked.
Jan 31
1.7hrs
Added sight line to pattern and printed new ones. Drilled some additional holes in brackets.
Feb 6
.4hrs
Drilled holes.
Feb 7
1.5hrs
Filed and sanded edges of outer bracket blanks.
Feb 9
1.1hrs
Same as yesterday... filed and sanded edges of outer bracket blanks. Made a bad bend (reject).
Feb 20
1.2hrs
Three side bracket pieces bent, trimmed, and filed.
Feb 22
1.5hrs
Complete outer bracket - start to first bend.
Mar 13
1.1hrs
Bent two bends on one brackets (not so fast, eh?).
Mar 14
1.5hrs
Two brackets competely bent. Cut off excess from "wings". Not happy at all with these.
Mar 15
1.4hrs
Re-designed bracket with some guts at the top of the wings.. One bracket; drilled, cut, filed, sanded and one bend. YES!
Mar 16
1.8hrs
Finished two bends on first bracket, then drilled, cut filed second bracket.
Mar 22
1.1hrs
Third bracket drilled, cut to shaped, and filed.
Mar 23
1hr
Brackets four and five... drilled, cut and filed.
Mar 24
1.8hrs
Two more like yesterday.
Mar 25
1.1hrs
One more bracket like two days ago. Sanded all to 220 grit.
Mar 26
1.8hrs
Sanded all un-welded edges to 400 grit. Two brackets have the bottom edge bent to shape.
Mar 27
1.8hrs
First bend on remaining 5 (bottom bend)
Mar 28
2hrs
Six 90 degree bends.
Apr 3
1hr
Cutting down sides on center pieces (not working out so well)
Apr 10
2.1hrs
Starting cutting more on the center pieces. Not working. Re-printed re-designed piece. Drilled, cut and ground to shape on complete new center piece.
Apr 12
1.2hrs
Cut, file, drill... 2nd center piece. Filed first center piece.
Apr 13
1.3hrs
Third center piece, start to finish.
Apr 15
1.6hrs
Forth center piece, start to finish.
Apr 16
1.1hrs
Sanded all four center pieces to 320 grit... on edges not going to be welded.
Apr 17
2hrs
Bent all sides on the four center sections.
Apr 19
1.2hrs
Three hard bends on an outer piece.
Apr 20
1.7hrs
Made remaining bends on outer pieces.
Apr 22
1.8hrs
Test bends on a test center piece. SUCCESS! Made bends on one of the good center pieces. Filed excess metal from bottom of side wings on each of the remaining three center pieces.
Apr 23
2hrs
Finished bending the center pieces of the motor mount.
Apr 24
1.9hrs
Started cutting off old mounts. Two are on the floor.
Apr 26
1hr
Cut another motor mount off the fuselage.
Apr 27
1 hr
4th and final mount cut off the fuselage.
Apr 29
.9hrs
Grinding off excess weld left over from when I cut off motor mounts.
Apr 30
1.1hr
More grinding of welds.
May 1
1hr
File excess weld from motor mount bracket area.
May 3
1.5hrs
Flipped fuselage... then more grinding and filing.
May 4
1.5hrs
Filing, then welding some of the nicks I made from taking off the brackets, then more filing.
May 6
.8hrs
Research on how to support colwing.
.9hrs
more filing of excess weld around old motor mounts...
May 8
1hr
Test welding of .100 to .100 material. Getting ready to weld motor mount brackets.
May 9
1.7hrs
Started welding the motor mounts. YES!
May 10
1.4hrs
Motor mounts... more welding.
May 11
1.3hrs
Motor mounts - weld the top radius of #3 and #4.
May 12
1.6hrs
Welding of the vertical edges of the mounts.
May 14
1.9hrs
More welding of the mounts.
May 15
1.8hrs
More welding of the mounts - almost there.
May 16
1.1hrs
Welding motor mounts
May 17
1.2hrs
Finished welding 3-piece mounts.
May 18
2.3hrs
Flipped fuselage to attach firewall so that I could test fit the fittings. I need enlarge the openings for the new sized motor mounts. Need to open them up to the original size I had them marked out to be. Enlarged one opening.
May 20
1.2hrs
Enlarged second opening.
May 21
.8hrs
Enlarged third opening.
May 22
3.2hrs
Enlarged fourth hole. Cleaned up all the excess "slag" left over from grinding down the openings.
May 23
2hrs
Figuring out firewall openings. (waste of time)
May 27
.9hrs
Match-drilled large plastic corrugated firewall template to fuselage to figure out openings. Still deciding on how to attach motor mounts.
May 28
1hr.
CAD time to design plate to join joint on firewall perimiter flange.
May 29
1.8hrs
Two tubes cut and notched for motor mounts (support for 45 degree side).
2hrs
Cut and notched second upper set of tubes, and one bottom tube.
May 30
.5hrs
Final corner tube cut and notched.
Jun 1
1.3hrs
Tweaking fit of tubes.
Jun 2
1.2hrs
Notched one of the upper port tubes again.
Jun 3
1.3hrs
Align both two-piece tubes.
Jun 4
.8hrs
Tweaked tubes on last set of tubes.
Jun 5
1.3hrs
Tacked/partially welded tubes on all four corners.
Jun 9
1.2hrs
Began welding tubes.
Jun 11
1.5hrs
Weld tubes for motor mounts.
Jun 12
2.2hrs
More welding of motor mount tubes.
Jun 13
1.9hrs
Welding of X-tubes for motor mounts.
Jun 14
.4hrs
Looking at and figuring out next steps for motor mounts.
Jun 15
.5hrs
More figuring out...
Jun 16
1.1hrs
Thought I needed to build up bottom of one of the brackets so I welded beads on edges... not such a good idea.
Jun 17
.6hrs
Ground off bead lines. Prepared brackets for welding onto mounting plates.
Jun 19
1.5hrs
Weld one bracket to mounting plate.
Jun 20
1.9hrs
Weld second bracket to mounting plate.
Jun 21
.5hrs
Tried welding up the third bracket to the mounting plate. No joy! Ran out of Acetylene.
Jun 23
1hr
New tank leaking at on/off knob. Need to replace... but they are closed. Played with the look of the scoop on the belly for awhile.
Jun 24
.6hrs
Welded up third bracket to the mounting plate. AMAZING how good you can weld when there is gas in the tanks!
Jun 25
1.2hrs
Welded fourth bracket to mounting plate. Ground some of the weld from a previous bracket/mounting plate to re-do.
Jun 26
1.5hrs
Finished welding third bracket to mounting plate and tacked all four onto Station Zero.
Jun 28
1hr
Welded one side on each of the four brackets. The finish is near!
Jun 29
.9hrs
Three more weld lines completed.
Jun 30
1.1hrs
Finished welding all three sides of the four mounting plates onto Station Zero. YES!
Jul 2
.5hrs
Flipped fuselage to upright. Deciding on how to jig the ring for welding up the engine mount.
Jul 3
.9hrs
Started making mounting board for engine ring. Cut ply, made measurements and marks.
Jul 4
.5hrs
Tweaked alignment of engine ring on mounting board. I'll be drilling 25/64th holes for attaching ring to board using 3/8inch bolts. Holes in ring are 25/64th.
Jul 6
.3hrs
Created centering hole patterns for mounting ring jig.
Jul 7
1.1hrs
Drilled holes in plywood jig to mount ring.
Jul 8
1.4hrs
Leveled fuselage (fore and aft, and side to side) and positioned the ring at its approximate location.
Jul 9
.9hrs
Leveling and centering of ring with laser level.
Jul 10
1.9hrs
Cleaning up of the ring; tried MEK and sanding at first. Didn't work. Ended up using a soft wire brush wheel on my drill.
Jul 12
.5hrs
Finished cleaning up ring, and applid navel jelly to protect it from rusting..
Jul 14
1.1hrs
Reamed wood bushings for the jig to hold rubber mount sleeves in place. Started cutting and notching jig tubing that will hold the ring in place while notching and cutting the engine mount.
Jul 15
1.1hrs
Continue notching jig tubing.
Jul 17
1.4hrs
ut and notched mounting ring jig tubes
Jul 18
1.5hrs
Leveling and squaring of engine ring
Jul 19
1.hrs
More leveling and squaring of engine ring
Jul 21
1.8hrs
MORE leveling and squaring of engine ring
Jul 22
1.6hrs
Tacked and started to cut caps for metal bushings
Jul 24
1.3hrs
Cut tubes and caps for metal bushings
Jul 25
1.6hrs
(8) new caps for bushings - 3/8inch holes first then circular hole saw, then grind down excess metal
Jul 26
1hr
Started making jig to hold pieces of metal bushing in place while welding them, also to center the caps to each other.
Jul 27
1.1hrs
Made caps smaller (used table grinder) and welded tube to jig.
Jul 28
.8hrs
Continued making jig for welding metal bushings.
Jul 30
1.5hrs
Welded caps on one end of each of four bushings
Jul 31
1.9hrs
Ground down excess weld on cap ends then welded on the remaing four caps.