One
of the Lower Wing Butt ribs hadn't been filed to it's
finished size. These ribs just don't seem to ever go away.
Am I done yet ?
Aug 13
1.4hrs
Cut and filed down six additional -057
fittings.
Aug 15
2hrs
Cut out and filed/ground down one -053 and one -054 fitting.
Cut one additional -057 fitting(unhappy with one of the ones I had previously made.)
Aug 16
1.8hrs
Reviewed plans for 3-piece wing. Looked over the fuselage drawings. Worked on CAD drawings.
Aug 19
N/A
Spent about 3 hours going through the items I picked up from Gus. A lot of stainless steel fasteners and a lot of
tubing for welding practice. Quite a bit of Sitka Spruc and Birch plywood. I still need to inventory the wood.
Aug 21 - 27
4hrs
On vacation and brought the books. Reading up on taps and dies, drilling holes,
weight and balance, etc etc
Aug 28
1hr
Drew patterns for Upper and Lower Aileron Tip Ribs.
Aug 29
1.5hrs
Traced,
cut and sanded all four tip ribs for the Upper and Lower
Ailerons.
Aug 30
1.2hr
Weld practice.
2hrs
Drew up the Servo Horn, Tab Horn and servo trim shaft fittings and both Instrument Panels on the CAD.
Sep 1
1.3hrs
Printed out the above fittings, cut all three out of 4130 and ground to size.
Sep 2
1.5hrs
Printed out all four -33 fittings, cut and ground down to size.
Sep 4
1.7hrs
Printed fittings -55 and -56, cut and ground to size.
1hr
More welding practice!
Sep 5
1.8hrs
Drew up Rear Landing Gear and Lower Wing fitting, and Rear Lower Wing
fitting up on CAD.
Sep 6
1.7hrs
Printed out, cut and ground/filed to size four Rear Landing Gear and Wing fitting.
Sep 8
.7hrs
Filed out 1" opening in above fittings.
Sept 11
1.1hrs
Weld Practice !
Sept 13
1.6hrs
More welding practice
Sept 19
1.2hrs
Dare I say... more welding ?
1hr
CAD: Aileron Hinge Detail
Sept 20
1.2hrs
More welding practice.
.5hrs
Finished drawing up the Aileron Hinge Detail on the CAD.
Sept 22
1.1hrs
CAD work
Sept 23
.8hrs
Drew up the Front Landing Gear and Flying Wire Fittings.
Sept 24
1.1hrs
More Welding practice.
1.5hrs
CAD details for Front Landing Gear
and Flying Wire Fittings.
Sept 25
2.2hrs
CAD... tailspring attachments, more detail to above fitting so that I don't
have to look at this print and Steens to make the fitting.
Sept 27
1.1hrs
YES! A breakthrough in welding. Nice weld lines tonight.
Sept 30
1.2hrs
Welding practice. Perfecting my technique.
Oct 1
1.8hrs
Cut the front and back spar blanks for the lower wings. Still need to plane down
the front spar. Unable to do it on my table saw.
Oct 2
1hr
Turned back the pressure on the tanks to approx. 5 lbs each. Easier to
control the puddle... it wasn't running away. Good session.
Oct 4
1.4hrs
More welding practice. Turned down the heat a bit tonight. Not happy with the welds.
It seem like it was an effort to make decent welds.
Oct 5
1hr
Review of rudder pedals drawings.
Oct 6
3.8hrs
Fabricated Rudder Pedal jig. Cut all tubing for Rudder Pedals close to size on the bandsaw.
Oct 7
.8hrs
Began notching tubing for rudder pedals.
Oct 8
1.7
CAD work. Rudder Pedal Fittings.
2.3
Cut the 45's, the rest of the notches and cut to size the Rudder Pedal tubing.
Oct 10
1.3hrs
Continued welding practice. They say use it or loose it.
1.1hrs
Trimmed to size the 2" tubes. Took forever without the right tools. Should have cut straight edge first then
notched.
Oct 11
1.6hrs
More welding practice. Larger, thicker tubing.
.4hrs
Cutout patterns printed for the rudder pedal brackets.
Oct 17
N/A
Spent 2 1/2 hours down in the shop tonight. Didn't accomplish a thing. Worked on getting the
bandsaw to cut straight again. Still isn't fixed and I'm out of blades now too. DAMN !
Oct 18
1.2hrs
While waiting for my new bandsaw blades I practiced a little more on my welding.
Looking good !
Oct 19
1.2hrs
Getting pretty good at this welding stuff. At least I think so. Did another hour of practicing with the torch.
Took about an hour to put together the new lathe.
Oct 21
1.8hrs
Sandblasted the older fittings I had purchased from Steen way back when.
Sprayed a coat of white primer on them.
Oct 22
.9hrs
MORE welding practice. I don't want to stop welding. I know what a
week or two of not welding can do for your style.
1.3hrs
Got the bandsaw put back together, and a new blade. Cut out six pieces that go onto the
rudder pedals and ground down to size. Just a few more fittings to cut and grind and I'll be able to weld these things together.
Oct 24
.8hrs
Practiced on two more compound weld joints. Gotta keep practicing.
1.7hrs
Cutout the four 3/4" x 4" fittings that are welded up to the back of the pilot's brake pedals. Ground them down to size. Damn Harbor Freight bandsaw blade lost a
tooth so I had to hand cut these.
Oct 25
2.4hrs
Cut and ground down seven additional pieces of the rudder pedal. All hand cut again. Still waiting on the bandsaw blades.
Oct 27
1.7hrs
Cut and filed down five more fittings. Slow going without that
bandsaw. Only need to cut and file down eight round metal caps for the top horizontal tubes, and the metal straps for up and over the the same tubes on the pedals and then I can start welding up.