Started the day with…. yep, you guessed it deburring and priming on the pilot-side outboard slat. After re-assembly the skin was riveted to the spar and now all four slats pieces are complete, bar the tips. While waiting for the primer to dry I had gone back to hacking away at the tips to...
Another build day, another deburring session. I took the assembled slat apart, deburred holes and edges and applied primer. Again, while waiting for the primer to dry I had another go at the tips. I got them pretty close this time but still a little too large to get inside the ends. With the...
Made good progress today. Started out in typical fashion with hole deburring and priming of the second slat: the pilot side inboard slat. While waiting for the primer to dry I had a go at cutting out the tips from the fibreglass mould. I had contacted Zenith to ask the best method and they...
With a bit more confidence we tackled folding over the skin onto the left inboard slat ribs. With this slat the two end ribs lined up almost exactly with the pre-drilled holes but the middle rib was quite tricky to locate where the holes were. A couple of times I thought we were close...
If you’ve read the last few days you know what is coming up. Disassembled the components, deburred all the holes and applied primer to both slats. I then re-assembled everything and riveted. At one point we had quite the slat factory going on…. one complete, two awaiting the top skin being attached and one...
Since the top part of the skin attachment had proved so tricky I decided that I would get the two out board slats in the same position as the pilot-side inboard slat: waiting for the top of the skin to be attached. So I basically repeated the steps from before: drilled the doublers into...
I had a couple of replies on the forums. One went into some detail about how they had used straps to cinch the metal skin to the ribs and then four pairs of hands to push the skin down while someone tried to get the holes in the ribs to line up “all with...
While waiting for some online help on finishing the first slat I got started on preparing the second inboard slat, the left one, or pilot’s side. I basically repeated all the steps from the previous days with the pax-side slat but I got them all done in one day. Drill #40 holes through the...
In what is becoming a common start to the build day, the first task we deburring all the holes, applying our primer and then re-assembling everything for riveting. Before Christmas I bought a compressor so that we could use the air gun for riveting – that box of 3000 rivets is scary! – so...
The day started off with completing the 8 ribs by deburring the holes, applying protection and then riveting together the rib, L-angle and bracket. After this the ribs were cleco’d into place on the skin using the pre-drilled holes Note how cool it is that the ribs pull the skin into shape underneath. Then...