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Build Hours: 280
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Fuel Tanks
Fuselage
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Organizational disaster.... Progress!
As I left the shop last night going back to the house, the winds were very strong. (News was saying 70mph straight line winds!) This morning I walked out to the shop and the first thing I saw when I opened the door was a sheet of the plans. Uh-oh.... a couple more steps and disaster! The window in the shop had blown open.... blowing the plans all over the shop... and worses yet.. knocking over one of the organizers!! :-( As the window came open, it smacked the back of the organizer knocking it off the workbench on to the floor. The good news is that it wasn't my rivet organizer. It mostly had bolts in it.. but still... spent an hour getting it back together and re-measuring all the bolts. I know I'm missing a few or they are in the wrong tray.
I did make some good progress today after recovering from the wind damage. I finished drilling a couple of holes in the fuel tank skin to attach to the spar. (Required a trip to Ray's to borrow a right angle drill.) I fitted the right tank to the wing for the final time. I pulled the wing off the stand and layed it on the table.
Sandi helped me put the left wing back in the stand. I pulled the tank off the spar and finished up a few things that needed to be done on it as well. Screwed the tank back on for what may not be the last time. This was the first tank I did, so the fit isn't great. Particuarly, there is puckering between the screw holes along the top and bottom, so the tank skin doesn't mate very nicely with the wing skin. This may be due to the baffle. The stock baffle flange is bent a little past 90 degree's and mine wasn't. I may pull it off again and see if I can get at least the top skin to sit flush on the spar. (Problem is that I already dismantled the wing stand.. so it may be later).
I also worked on the aileron bellcrank for the left wing. It's in place and ready. The right wing bellcrank has fit issues with the brass bushing. I need to ream out the bellcrank so the bushing fits.
I finished off the evening by drilling the aileron/flap gap fairings to the right wing. (Left wing fairing are done and ready for priming).
(Time: 5 hours)
