I'm about a month behind in my posts but I'll attempt to make some kind of sense of our progress. We finally received the new part from Vans for the floorboard and got it installed; in the meantime, we skipped around a bit trying to do what we could so we didn't have much down time. I'll report on a page-by-page basis and the dates that we completed various steps. Please excuse the confusion, and excuse any repitition that I may be making.
On pg 21-14, we did step 1 on 11/2 and steps 2 through 7 and page 21-15 steps 2 through 4. We did separation of parts whenever we could, as in step 1, 8, and 9 at an earlier date. We found that doing as much dimpling as we could while we had a particular die in the squeezer, saved us a bit of time. On pg 21-16, I did a lot of the dimpling BEFORE we installed the the skins on the bottom.
On 11/6, we completed pages 21-18 and 19. On 11/8, we completed step 3 though 11. The bushings were a snap...
On 11/12, we did pg 21-20 and pg 22-02 though step 12. On 11/13 we did pg 22-03. I notice that we pg 22-04 on 11/12.
I have written that we did pg 22-05 on 11/28 which is clecoing and riveting the lower fuse assembly to the mid fuse and botom skin assembly.
The next part was really tricky; George had a friend at his local EAA chapter that had some equipment that helped him with the bendng of the longeron. We tried bending with a hammer but that was a joke. Anyway, on pg 23-02, it gives very exact directions on how to bend and to what specifications they were to be bent. TRUST ME! If you don't get it right, your plane will be weird looking. We got this stuff all done on 11/28.
We did pg 23-03 step 1 and 2 on 11/13 and step 3 and 4 and step 2 on pg 23-04 on 11/15. We did steps 3 though 8 on 11/21.
We did step 8 on pg 23-04 and stept 1 and 2 on pg 23-05 on 11/29. I used a Dremel to cut out the skin.
On 12/10 we did pg 23-06 stepts 1-8, except for the cut out parts, and we did those earlier. We ran out of LP 4-5's at this point and had to request some more. Alot of this date was spent on assembling and drilling and disassembling and deburring parts.
On 12/12, we did pg 24-02, the roll bar assembly. That took us our whole work day. We discussed priming it then, but in our finite wisdom, decided not to. (I ended up priming it later, AFTER it was installed...a truly stupid thng.) Whenever you see a step that has something to do with 'remove hatched area and separate', just figure that was done inbetween jobs or when one of us was doing another step where only one set of hands was required.
Page 23-07 and and 08 was done on 11/4, 12/18, and 12/4, as they were all sub-assemblies and didn't have to be done immediately at that point of assembly.
We did pg 26-02 on 12/2 and 12/3, also pg 26-03, and 04.
We completed pgs 27-01 through 03 on 12/3 and 12/4. We started the plumbing on pg 27-04 on 12/5. Pg 27-05 was completed on 12/14. Running the pipe through the fuselage was a bear.
We did 27-06 and 28-01 though 28-04 on 12/18.
I'll try to post some more tomorrow.
