Title: rudder cable fairings
Well, the house in SDL sold in less than 24 hours. That meant that I was here for less than a week before I U-turned back out there and cleared all the furniture out, prepped the car, took stuff To Holly in Tucson, and cleared out. I was there for 8 days doing all that, Then when I got back I had stuff here that I had to catch up on, so it seems like I haven't worked on the RV in forever. While I was there, I was able to visit Darwin Berrie and see his RV7. Absolutely beautiful airplane, and it confirmed the decision to not put steps on my 7. It's a big step, up onto the wing, but not unreasonable. Darwin also installed an IO390, so I was able to look it over closely and take some pictures and get some tips from him which hopefully will come in handy when I get to the FWF stuff. Anyway, back at it! This entry represents a bunch of short sessions and one long one today. Last week after I returned to Kansas, I primed the floor pans, baggage side panels, trimmed and match drilled the rudder cable fairings (but won't rivet them until later) and took care of a few other small jobs, Just trying to get back into the saddle. I painted the seat backs with rustoleum hammered pewter textured paint and got some splotches on one so I ended up stripping it off and repainting it. They turned out ok, but I don't think I'm going to use that stuff on anything else. I'm just going to stick with gray primer inside for now. Today I installed the aft baggage side walls, baggage floor, and trimmed to fit then match drilled the aft baggage lower and upper corrugated panels. The lower was easy because It was already drilled so all I had to do was cleco along the bottom edge and then match drill up the sides. The upper requires trimming to match the upper curvature of the bulkhead, and the print calls for an 8.5" radius. I don't have a set of calipers or compass that big, so I made one out of a ruler with a sharpie and a toothpick taped an appropriate distance apart. Trimmed to fit, then laid out the hole pattern per print 29, and pilot drilled to #40. Match drilled the baggage bulkhead and clecoed everything together. Will need to upsize for the #8 nut plates and cutout for the seatbelt cables next. Side note- Sorry for the cruddy picture quality. I got a new phone a while back and my old life proof case doesn't fit. I got a new case from amazon and it's pretty much bullet proof, but it causes the pictures to be fuzzy. I'm evidently going to have to spend the bucks for a new life proof case if I want good quality pix again.


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