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Stabilator, Yard Work and Truck3/19/2018 So its been a slow weekend for the build for sure, starting with the rodeo on Friday, which btw I absolutely dislike Chris Stapleton's music! There glad I got that off my chest. So we returned home Saturday as I had to work then we had a St. Pattys day party to attend later that evening so I got a couple hours of work in that time frame. Oh first things first though, I received the parts that were on backorder from Vans which comprised of the bearings and the service bulletin 02-02-18 which entails beefing up the stabilator horn attach points where other builders had began to experience some cracks. So onto that next. In the picture below is basically what I got done in the 2 hours I was able to put on the plane Sat. which consisted of priming the front spar, riveting all of the doublers and nutplates to both front and rear spars. Some deburring and that was all she wrote for the weekend. Sunday was comprised of much needed yard work, weed and feeding, and then working on my truck which had a leak in the windshield washer fluid container. I figured since I had the wheel well off I mind as well change my glow plugs out as they are all needing replacing. Going to reinstall the tank and put the new glow plugs in today so I can get back to the plane. Cheers!
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January 2019
Empennage Total Build Hours: 82.24
Inventory: 1.45 Vertical Stabilizer: 13.26 Rudder: 7.5 Anti-Servo Tabs: 4:30 Stabilator: 24.11 Tailcone: 30.42 |