Monthly Construction Log - May 2009
| Date | |
| 1 | Primed all parts. Riveted bell crank plates. |
| 2 | Reassembled and riveted tank bay area. Started rear spar assembly. |
| 3 | Reassembled rear spar and riveted except flap hinge support. Assembled and riveted all aileron push-pull tubes. Will install bellcranks and push-pull tubes later when skin drilling is complete.
To make room for the wing skin assembly, need to get the fuselage put
together onto a temporary carriage. Started assembling forward fuselage to center/aft fuselage. Riveted floorboard channels to spar carry-through ribs. |
| 4 | No work. |
| 5 | Continued working on forward fuselage assembly and fabricating a temporary undercarriage in lieu of the main gear legs. |
| 6 | Continued working on forward fuselage assembly and fabricating a temporary undercarriage in lieu of the main gear legs. |
| 7 | No work. |
| 8 | No work. |
| 9 | No work. |
| 10 | No work. |
| 11 | Finished temporary undercarriage and got fuselage off workbench. (I kind
of like the taildragger S-19...) Gathered wing skin parts. |
| 12 | Cut apart wing stiffeners. |
| 13 | Started assembling wing stiffeners to aft wing skins. |
| 14 | Continued aft wing skin stiffener assembly. Started fabricating blocks for wing assembly work. |
| 15 | No work. |
| 16 | No work. |
| 17 | Finished installing aft wing skin stiffeners. Test fit new mounting
plate for GretzAero pitot mast (thanks to son Andrew for great sheet
metal work!) - mounting plate will be riveted to spar,
rib, and skin. Will finalize installation after lower forward wing skin
is clecoed in. Working on getting left wing frame on blocks and trued.
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| 18 | No work. |
| 19 | Got left wing frame squared and clamped onto blocks. |
| 20 | No work. |
| 21 | No work. |
| 22 | No work. |
| 23 | No work. |
| 24 | No work. |
| 25 | No work. |
| 26 | Removed center splice plate from bulkhead #1 and reinstalled in the opposite direction per updated info from Rans. Clecoed lower aft skin onto left wing frame. |
| 27 | Son Andrew visited with a flaring tool, so we installed the flare fittings on
the AOA pitot lines. (Okay, I watched and he made it look easy.) |
| 28 | Transfer drilled #40 the lower aft skin on the left wing. Fitted tank cover and lower aft tip skin. |
| 29 | Fabricated aileron hinges. Started fabrication and installation of
left flap hinge. Mistakenly started flap hinge off by 1/2" on hinge
(i.e. on hinge pin versus space), so removed and started over. Was able
to use leftover empennage hinge material to fabricate new wing section. |
| 30 | No work. |
| 31 | No work. |