Well,the rudder pedals are installed,the whole assembly was removed from the old diagonals and reinstalled via the factory blueprints.This leaves the flying wire attach brackets and the cowl attach brackets ,both which are fabricated, left to weld on.
I had my first day off in 17 days of flying jumpers and got a lot done today.
Stopped by the hangar at SNS and did a little on the RV-4 fuel tanks I'm building then came home and had a brainstorm on how to mass produce some nose ribs for the lower wings that have to be replaced..Icut 16 5by 4" 1/4 thick pieces of aircraft ply.proceeded to make a bottom crush clamp from scrap ply to create the bottom of the clamp,then took a noserib from the wrecked lower wings and clamped it to the top of the stack of plates..I bolted the assembly together with the bolts that hold the bottom of the master cylinders to the fuse..
Cut them out on the bandsaw following the outline of the original noserib and finished them up nice on the beltsander.Having a hard time getting the photos off the sandisk and into the computer..
Last week I finished the tailwheel mount by removing the tube and adding a pinchtube to it.Welded it back on.I have to get the main gear on to finish the tailwheel.(Want to make SURE it's perfectly lined up..I've already been off roading due to a crooked tailwheel.NOT FUN!)Tommorow I will start making a rib jig..I figure I will make ribs at work while i'm waiting on parachute repacking..1-1/2 hour wait 3-4 times a day will give time to make a few ribs...I cut one of the ribs out of the broken lower wings and will make a cool jig from the outline.
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