Notched and filed two new face plate supports for the back pit's instrument panel.
Feb 2
.5hrs
Deburring instrument panel parts. Saw 2024 T3 is very soft. Will need to re-make several of the parts.
Feb 3
1.9hrs
Fine tuning the fit of the instruments on the rear face panel.
Feb 4
1.9hrs
Worked on the flange for the arched section of the back cockpit's instrument panel.
Feb 5
1.9hrs
Filed and sanded smooth the flange for the top, curve on the back instrument panel. Match-drilled flange to the instrument panel.
Feb 6
5.7hrs
Drilled the vertical rivet holes on the back instrument panel face plate and match-drilled both "U" supports to plate.
Feb 7
1.2hrs
Measured, marked, drilled holes for circuit breakers on back cockpit's face plate.
1.3
Figuring out and fine tuning how and where I was going to drill the rivet holes in the back cockpit's main instrument panel.
2.5hrs
Said the hell with that one face plate and decided to make all four new ones.
Feb 8
2.2hrs
Measured location and cut holes in new instrument main panel for the back pit.
Feb 9
3.8hrs
Cut the large opening in the center of the main instrument panel for the back cockpit. Checked the toggle switch locations, marked and drilled those out as well.
Feb 10
1.7hrs
Drilling the back-side of the "U" channels then match-drilling them to the face plate of the back instrument panel.
Feb 11
1.9hrs
Re-routed the face plate for the front pit. Used 6061 T-6. Seeing how easily scratched 2024 T-3 can be is what started me down the road of re-doing all in 6061 T6. Cut both 3 1/8inch holes too.
Feb 12
1.9hrs
Routed 2 1/4inch hole in front face plate. Drilled and notched "L" flange for curve of front face plate too.
Feb 13
4.5hrs
Drilled holes in front pit's face plate and then match-drilled "L" flange and "U" channels to it.
Feb 14
2.8hrs
Drilled holes in front pit's main panel and match-drilled it to the "U" channels.
Feb 15
4.1hrs
Drilled all the instrument mounting holes on the back cockpit's instrument panel; face plate and main panel.
Feb 16
.9hrs
Drilled instrument mounting holes in front pit's face panel.
Feb 17
2.9hrs
Drilled holes in "L" flange for rivets. Cut, notched, bent and match-drilled "L" flange to the top edge of the back pit's main panel.
Feb 18
1,5hrs
Match-drilled "L" flange to the front pit's straight, top, edge.
Feb 19
1.9hrs
Drilled holes in 6ft of "L" flange. This will be for the "L" flange for the back of the "boxes" for each instrument panel.
Feb 20
1.9hrs
More work on the "L" flanges for the back side of the instrument panels; drilled and notched 3ft of the stuff.
Feb 21
2.2hrs
Cut, fitted and match-drilled "L" flanges for arched areas on both cockpit instrument back sides.
Feb 22
2.2hrs
Cut, fitted and match-drilled both straight "L" flanges to the back side of the back pit's instrument panel. Cut and fitted up both "L" flanges to the back side of the front pit's instrument panel.
Feb 23
1.1hrs
Drilled the holes in the "L" flanges, of the rear instrument panel, for the anchor nuts.
Feb 27
3hrs
Measured and drilled holes for anchor nut plates.
Feb 28
2.6hrs
Drilled the remaining holes for anchor nut installation on front instrument panel.
Mar 4
.5hrs
Making pattern for outer shell of back instrument panel.
Mar 5
2.1hrs
Worked on cutting out the shell of the back pit's instrument panel and fitting it up to the front and back sides.
Mar 8
1.1hrs
Aligning and marking holes in one instrument panel shell.
Mar 10
.8hrs
Two new instrument panel shell blanks cut out of .o32 aluminum.
Mar 11
1hr
Filed down both blanks to the marked lines. Ready for fitting up.
Mar 13
1.4hrs
Rough cut, close cut, file and sanded to line one new sway wire fitting.
Mar 14
1.5hrs
Rough cut three remaining sway wire fittings
Mar 15
1.1hrs
Filed and sanded smooth... edges of three sway wire fittings
Mar 17
1.6hrs
Bent all four fittings to either 150 degrees or 117.5 degrees.
Mar 19
1.3hrs
Drill holes in all four fitting pieces.
Mar 20
1.7hrs
Weld both halves of both fittings together.
Mar 21
.9hrs
Drilling rivet holes to attach anchor nut plates to the flanges of the instrument panels.
Mar 22
1.4hrs
Drilling anchor nut plate holes again.
Mar 23
1.3hrs
And again...
Mar 24
1.4hrs
And again...
Mar 25
2.1hr
Half-way through countersinking the anchor nut plate rivet holes on the instrument panel flanges.
Mar 26
1.5hrs
Finished counter-sinking the rivet holes.
Mar 28
1.5hrs
Started riveting on anchor nut plates to flanges on the instrument panels.
Mar 29
1.5hrs
Continued riveting... sames as above.
Mar 30
1.2hrs
More of the same... riveting.
Mar 31
.9hrs
And... the same (riveting)
Apr 1
1.1hrs
Finished riveting the anchor nut plates to the flanges. Just need to go back and drill out a few bad rivets and re-rivet and be done.
Apr 2
3.5hrs
Drilled out several rivets from instrument panel for re-dos. Re-riveted those areas. Drilled corner holes in the back panels of both instrument panels for making lightening holes.
Apr 3
1.2hrs
Cleaning up and filing the inside-edge of one of the instrument panel, back panels.
Apr 4
.9hrs
Same as yesterday except on the second panel.
Apr 5, 6
N/A
Spent both nights figuring out how to attach the instrument panels to the fuselage. Finally decided to wait until I had it all together to work on the idea more... I can take it apart easily to add a few brackets to it.
Apr 7
1.4hrs
Spent the night testing the idea of a double flush and shaved rivet to fill in three holes. It works and I did the three holes. Nice !
Apr 8
3.1hrs
More prep work on the instrument panels; re-riveted several anchor nut plates, cut down rivets and sanded/deburred the "L" flanges.
Apr 10
1.2hrs
Worked on the sway-wire fittings. Cut and bent the doubler for each of the two fittings. Ready for welding...
Apr 11
1.6hrs
Began riveting instrument panel pieces together.
Apr 12
2.2hrs
Continued riveting the instrument panels.
Apr 13
1.2hrs
Drilled out bad rivets from instrument panel.
Apr 14
1.4hrs
More instrument panel riveting.
1.3hrs
Cutting more rivets for instrument panel.
Apr 15
1.2hrs
Drill out bad rivets from instrument panels.
1.6hrs
More riveting on the instrument panels.
Apr 16
1.7hrs
Cut and grind to size the doublers for the sway wire fittings.
1.3hrs
More riveting of the instrument panels.
Apr 17
1.3hrs
More riveting on the instrument panels.
.7hrs
Welded on doublers onto the sway-wire fittings.
Apr 18
.9hrs
Grinding off the old sway-wire fittings.
Apr 19
1hr
Ground off what was left of the starboard sway-wire fitting.
Apr 20
1.2hrs
Ground off the second sway-wire fitting.
Apr 21
.8hrs
Filed excess weld puddles from sway-wire fitting areas.
Apr 22
.4hrs
Weld nicks in tubing.
1hr
Match-drill (8) 5/16inch holes in sway-wire brackets.
1hr
File and sand welds.
Apr24
3.1hrs
Riveted (using air tool) as many of the rivets I could on the instrument panels.
Apr 27
1hr
Welded on the first of the two, new sway-wire brackets.
Apr 29
.9hrs
Welded on second sway-wire bracket.
Apr 30
1.8hrs
More riveting on the instrument panels. Just about done with them.