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July 17, 2004
Didn't work on the plane last night. Monique is off on a toupee trip to the mid-west so we took the night off to catch a movie (King Arthur) and generally just spend time together. I dropped her off at the airport around 6:15am, so had a lot of time to work on the plane. This is undoubtedly the longest time period I've worked on the plane in a day, and I was very happy with what got done.
Finally got all the parts removed!
I never knew what a motivator housework is! Jer had a bunch of housework to do, and so of course hid in the basement with me. I told him that if he wanted to slack-off in the basement, I was putting him to work. Several months ago, the pneumatic squeezer was 'way cool'. Evidently it's more like actual work now. Doing some of the dimpling simply wore him out...so I told him he could relax getting his chores done. Muwahahahahah!
My purchases from the NWEAA Arlington air show. Clear Air Tools (whom I'd never heard of) had a display in the exhibitors area. Their longeron yoke was $20 cheaper than Cleveland's (who was also there). They also had this nifty little guy that I hadn't seen anywhere else. Looked like it might fit is some close quarters that the other yokes wouldn't, so I picked it up as well. The 3 extra holes in the longeron yoke are for their bench-top mounting adapter bracket. I didn't get that, nor did I get their conversion kit to change a CP214 over to a foot-activated valve.
This was supposed to be the first of two shots, the arrow pointing to a hole that was 'aliced'. Jer was whacking the C-frame and has a tendency to hit from the side, or lightly. When somebody hits something way to softly, they 'aliced' it, and are sometimes referred to as 'alice' (golf thing, least-ways that where I learned it). The second shot showed the hole cleaned up, but they came out too fuzzy to be worth posting. Suffice to say, the hole was fixed.
Lil' ol' me working away cleaning up an inspar rib. FAA Inspectors take note, I'm the one building this thing!
*whew* all the parts are finally dimpled. Man am I glad I have that pneumatic squeezer. If you are building, or intend to, and don't have one, I'd say it's one of the most important tools you can buy after the basic kit.
Ahhh, the mistake. In getting this nose rib to fit, I ended up taking off a wee bit much on the nose. At this point, my edge distance is too narrow for comfort, so I've made a couple of tabs that will get riveted on the shop head side. Should take care of the reduced edge distance my providing extra support. After this shot, I ended up trimming the tabs down a little bit, and also bent the front edge to fit the curve of the skin. I'd hate to have my fix end up dinging the skin!
