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Builder Name:Andrew Weingram   -  
Project:   Vans - RV-14A   -   VIEW REPORTS
Total Hours:592.7
Total Flight Time:
Start/Last Date:May 01, 2014 - No Finish Date
Engine:Lycoming IO390 EXP 119
Propeller:MT 3 blade
Panel:G3x x2 GTN 750xi G500 G5 VP-Xpro
 
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Mar 27, 2024     Finish kit payments - (.1 hour) Category: Fuselage
Final paymennt for finish kit
 
Mar 17, 2024     23-08. Torque tube install - (3 hours)       Category: Wings
Installed competed aileron Torque tube sub assemblies in the with wing root bearings...

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Mar 10, 2024     Aileron Torque tube assemblies page 23-07 - (4 hours) Category: Wings
Page 23-07 left and right side Aileron Torque tube assembly.

First make the precise little wood spacer block. (Oh come on, that could have been something yet sent!) then get the correct length and clocking. Make two mirror images of each other,, Then dissasemble when done, and I forgot to take a pic, so no sexy completed pick before I diassembled.
 
Mar 02, 2024     Aileron Torque tubes - (2 hours)       Category: Instrument Panel
Page 23-06 aileron Torque tubes done, Now to cut the spacer block accurately, (I hate that kind of stuff for some reason, Would be nice if they just gave me a little plastic piece perfectly made....)

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Feb 05, 2024     Aileron Trim kit - (.1 hour) Category: Instrument Panel
Electric trim
 
Feb 05, 2024     Final check for panel - (.1 hour) Category: Instrument Panel
sent off final check for Avioinics systems LLC
 
 
Jan 21, 2024     Aileron Pushtubes - (2 hours) Category: Wings
Short 25.25 inch x .5 inch pushrod tubes complete.
I hate them.
 
Jan 14, 2024     23-03 Pushrod tubes - (4 hours) Category: Wings
Pushrod tubes for ailerons competed. Tried out Alodining them instead of priming at the aerospace metals place. A little more expensive than I expected, but make for perfect inside of the tubes for rust proofing purposees.
 
Dec 19, 2023     Sent push rod tubes and ends out to be alodined. - (3 hours) Category: Wings
Took all the aileron pushrod tubes and ends out to be alodined instead of trying to prime the inside of the tubes.
 
Dec 19, 2023     Skin finished dimpling. - (1 hour)       Category: Wings

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Dec 19, 2023     Bad side finished. - (2 hours)       Category: Wings

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Nov 19, 2023     Finally Back to building. Thanks to John Corneal and Dean Howard - (8 hours)       Category: Wings
I had been flummoxed by something on my quick build Wings, and it totally broke my inertial. I thought a one of the Lower wing stiffeners in the quick build kit was miss shaped because the parts wouldn't nest. Turns out the factory used the wrong part. Have devised a work around. So Created the J Channel for the good wing, cleckoed match drilled, deburred dimpled J channel, Dimpled the lower out skin for the wing. Will do the messed up wing next. I also noticed they Scribed the parts at the factory. I thought we weren't supposed to do that. Opens up a new realm of possibilities. First pics are of the wrong part used by the factory in the left wing. (J Channel is larger and heavier than it is supposed to be.). rest of Pics will be my work on the good wing.

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Nov 08, 2023     Next check for Avionics - (0.3 hour) Category: Avionics
Progess payment on avionics.
 
Aug 03, 2023     Flap gap stiffeners in - (6 hours)       Category: Wings

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Jun 23, 2023     Have I been wasting my time polishing?       Category: Research
Looking closely at the spar as I was running wire, I noticed that you could see the grain of the metal in the lightening holes of the spar and you could see where the punch had come through. Since this got through quality control, it would appear that I have wasted a lot of time polishing things that didn't need to be sanded smooth. Also cut the crap out of my hand on a rib... (Not as rounded off as my stuff is... )

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Jun 23, 2023     fuel tanks reinstalled. Wiring underway - (6 hours)       Category: Wings
Reinstalled the fuel thanks. Thanks to Matt Dunkel for the help mannhandling the wings.
Started running the wires throughout the wings

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Jun 22, 2023     Fuel tank leak checks suck - (10 hours) Category: Wings
Endlessly pressurized and wiped leak check over every inch of the tanks. No leaks found. But I don't believe it... Maybe I'll go with a blue paint scheme.
 
Jun 20, 2023     Pressure testing the tanks and Paid for the engine. - (2 hours)       Category: Wings
Tanks out and pressure testing. Thanks to Matt Dunkel for helping me move the wings. I need a bigger shop.

I also need a bigger bank account, as Van's just asked for the final payment on the Thunderbolt engine. Plus, I was missing the plug for one of the vents in the tanks AN913-3D. Thanks for John Corneal for giving me one from his kit, and I had to order one of them from Vans to the tune of 25.03 (It was missing from the kit) in order to give it back to John.

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Jun 17, 2023     left wing sending unit prepped - (1 hour)       Category: Wings
Prepped and fitted the left wing sending unit. (Went much faster this time, but was still screwed up for a while getting it all squared away and moving the right amount. Pulled a single serving side of proseal out of the fridge, In the morning when it warms up ill mix it and seal it in place. WIsh I had a bigger shop so I could leave both wings on a table at the same time....

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Jun 12, 2023     Fuel tank sending units - (10 hours)       Category: Wings
Ok, This took about 9 hours too long. I just couldn't make it work right from the pic and the plans. Used the wiki and everything, and everyone's tank wasn't visable when I stopped by the other builds. But finally it all came together. Right wing done, left wing should go quickly. But two days chewed up on what I thought would be a quicky....

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Jun 09, 2023     bearing flanges and fuel sender wires - (3 hours)       Category: Wings
Added the bearing flanges and bent the wires and started installing the fuel tank sending units...


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Jun 04, 2023     Finished landing light lenses - (4 hours)       Category: Wings
Finished the landing light lenses They came out far better than I expected

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Jun 03, 2023     Finally building again. - (3 hours)       Category: Wings
Resumed work on landing light lenses. First day building since the Battle of Fred and the move to the new house. (About a 6 month delay)

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Mar 28, 2023     MT 3 bladed propellor - (.5 hour) Category: Propeller
MT Prop Has arrived and is in storage now. 15,000 more dollars into the kitty...
 
Mar 24, 2023     Ailerons and Flaps have arriveed - (.5 hour) Category: Wings
Back ordered parts have arrived.
 
Feb 27, 2023     MOVING DELAYS PROJECT - (5 hours) Category: Workshop
Setting up new shop at new house hangar....
 
Dec 23, 2022     Just noticed the fuel system column, its buried in the fuselage Category: Fuel System
The fuel selector valve and lines are buried in the fuselage section.

Lines were made by TS flightlines.
 
Dec 23, 2022     stall warning - (3 hours)       Category: Wings
Lots of little fidly bits in this one.

Some missing hardware (washers) reqiured digging around on my bench to find the correct ones.

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Dec 22, 2022     landing light bays - (2 hours)       Category: Wings
Decided to leave them unprimed.

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Dec 17, 2022     Inventory - (5 hours) Category: Wings
Ailerons missing, flaps on back order. Airlinerons will be sent with the flaps.

 
 
 
Nov 23, 2022     call for Delivery - (.5 hour) Category: Wings
Wings will be delivered between Dec 6-8. Which is awesome because I am out of parts!
 
 
 
 
Oct 21, 2022     Flap motor and torque tubes... - (4 hours)       Category: Fuselage
drilled and installed the flap torque tubes. Used rustoleum for the inside of the tubes for rust proofing. Cheap and easy... 10 bucks for a rattle can of black rustoleum down the tubes.... Chapter complete.

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Oct 17, 2022     Finished the rudder pedals and whatnot       Category: Fuselage
Chapter complete. Rudder pedals and brakes fully intalled and rudder cables hooked up. Used Asflightlines Braided Brake lines.


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Oct 14, 2022     pedals in and first test fitting - (4 hours)       Category: Fuselage
Finshed and installed the rudder pedals and test fit with Eileen.

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Oct 12, 2022     rudder pedals - (9 hours)       Category: Fuselage
Built up the rudder pedals. Cut everything, deburred, riveted together. Then had to completely drill apart 2 of the pedals because they were assembled wrong, but I got there eventually.

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Oct 09, 2022     QB wings on the way - (.5 hour) Category: Wings
Final payment for my QB wings.

 
 
 
Sep 20, 2022     Baggage Floors and flap bushings. - (5 hours)       Category: Fuselage
formed the flap tube bushings and installed then started makling the baggage floor.

Of course I made one flap bushing wrong and had to borrow and extra block from Dave Corwith to replace the one I ruined. Photo of ruined block provided as well. Thanks to fred for doing the first cut on the mill

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Sep 13, 2022     As flightlines brake and fuel lines - (0.4 hour) Category: Fuselage
Bought brake and fuel lines already made up. Should save time and be of higher quality.
 
Sep 05, 2022     Much progress on the join - (8 hours)       Category: Fuselage
Made the lugs for the seatbelts. Attached the Lugs with Special Thanks to Ken Allen for crawling in and bucking the rivets from inside the tail cone.

Then riveted the top half of the fusealge Join. 100s of Cleckos back in the bin... YAY

Special greatful for Cleveland Tools Close quarters dimple dye which I used to dimple the 14 #30 holes for the Seatbelt LUGs.... I never found where they should be dimpled when I was doing the skins (It only said dimple the 40 holes)

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Sep 01, 2022     The Big Join is done. - (9 hours)       Category: Fuselage
Finished all the quick build catch ups I could, but opted not to do the vents yet thinking it might make the installation of the panel easier. completed all the work on the baggae bulkheads, test fitted them took em back out and THEN THE BIG JOIN!!!!! Yay.... Ken Allen and Joey Weingram (my son) for the assist on the join, no way I could have done it myself. Then Eileen helped me put in the baggage bulkheads and called it a night.

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Aug 30, 2022     Baggage bulkheads.... - (4 hours)       Category: Fuselage
dimples and nutplates, plenty to go around on the baggage bulkheads.

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Aug 24, 2022     QB catch up - (5 hours)       Category: Fuselage
Plenty of steps left out of fuselage by QB build. Some of it was a head scratcher how to do out of phase.

Landing gear supports are primed and going in. Pic of the catch uppage.

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Aug 23, 2022     Check writing. - (5 hours) Category: Avionics
Spent time researching competing panel bids from Oshkosh.

Went with Avionics systems https://www.avionikits.com/ because the guy had a good rep amongst my friends that had used him, and he already had a system that was VERY close to what I had envisioned for my aircraft on display with very minor tweaking requried.

 
Aug 11, 2022     Landing gear holes - (4 hours)       Category: Fuselage
Cut one of the holes for the landing gear legs that wasn't completed by the buiders. Second one will go faster when I finally was able to borrow the right tool to be able to get in there. Thanks to Keith Philips

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Aug 11, 2022     Building, and missing parts - (4 hours) Category: Fuselage
Started buidling, and the QB starts with the SV10/5 vents are not included. So I ordered the clear SV-6 and weeeeeeee another 340 bucks shot to hell. But anyway, I'm working with aluminum again. Even if most of today was flipping through instructions and scratching my head.
 
Aug 03, 2022     All the small bits are done. - (4 hours) Category: Fuselage
All the small bits are counted and stored in plastic trays that SHOULD allow me to find them again at the right time.
 
Aug 02, 2022     continuing to inventory - (3 hours)       Category: Fuselage
Moved the inventory to the game room for the airconditioning and the better seating while doing all the small work. Also ran to Harbor freight to get a bunch of those closable plastic trays for the inventory purposes.

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Aug 01, 2022     Back from Oshkosh and builiding again! - (6 hours)       Category: Fuselage
QB fuselage arrived. conducting the inventory and organization of parts. Spending time here now will hopefully save time later not hunting for parts.
Probably less than halfway through the inventory. Lots of minutia this time aroun.

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Jun 24, 2022     Freight bill paid. QB fuselage finally on the way. - (0.4 hour) Category: Fuselage
Fuselage finally on the way to me. Of Course, its gonna arrive while I am at Oshkosh!
 
May 23, 2022     QB fuselage balance - (0.3 hour) Category: Fuselage
 
Mar 01, 2022     Deposit for QB WINGS. - (.3 hour) Category: Wings
DEPOSIT TAKEN FOR WINGS. a year after ordering. Should be here by the end of 22. almost 2 year wait.
 
Feb 26, 2022     Deposit for QB finally taken from Vans. - (0.3 hour) Category: Fuselage
Deposit taken a year later for the fuselage QB set. SHOULD Be here by may
 
Feb 15, 2022     Engine Deposit - (0.3 hour) Category: Engine
Deposit on IO390EXP Tunderbolt Engine with dual E mags paid
 
Feb 14, 2022     OUT OF PARTS!~ - (10 hours)       Category: Empennage
And just like that, I'm out of parts. Thanks to Ken Allen and Fred Schriver who competed and pushed me to get the empanage finished. All Aluminum parts are used up, just some fiberglass on the tips still to go. Empanage now stored up on a shelf as I wait for the QB fuselage from Vans....

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Feb 07, 2022     upper skins going on. - (10 hours)       Category: Empennage
Dimpled the uppoer skins installed the breaks at the edge assembled the center up piece started riveting the right skins as well

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Feb 06, 2022     drilled the rudder - (2 hours)       Category: Empennage
Vertical stab placement and match drilling. I love it when things look like the final picture.

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Feb 01, 2022     Finish Kit ordered. Category: Firewall
Ordered the Finish Kit for an IO390 EXP RV14a. Was told 13 month lead time.

 
Jan 31, 2022     A couple of pages knocked out! - (9 hours)       Category: Empennage
Static lines and ports installed. Transponder antenna wire routed and installed. ELT wires routed and installed.

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Jan 29, 2022     Skins done, nutplates in and rudderstops on. - (7 hours)       Category: Empennage
Finished the skins with my able assistent master builder Fred Schriver Added the rudder stops. and the nut plates

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Jan 27, 2022     rivet rivet rivet - (8 hours)       Category: Empennage
Rivet the side skins inplace. Some help from Fred and Eileen. but over 250 with me holding the gun and bucking bar myself. Thank god for tungesten bucking bars and the rub ring around the flat set on the gun. I was very worried about how it would go together especially under the tail, but the rivets pulled it together beautifully

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Jan 26, 2022     Last of the bulkeheads inserted and riveting under way! - (5 hours)       Category: Empennage
Thanks to Fred again for helping do some of the riveting of the awkard curves around the very aft section of the empanage. First did the very aft bellyskin, (cut away and smooth, and rivet the last bulkhead to it, insert the whole sub assembly and clecko inplace. (rememebering to get the ribs under it.

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Jan 15, 2022     Left and right sides are on. - (5 hours)       Category: Empennage
Left and right sides are cleckoed in place. Biggest hangup was paging back and forth to place the wiring harnesses in the track first. For some reason I had trouble visualizing

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Jan 13, 2022     Dimples dimples dimples, countersink dimples.... - (9 hours)       Category: Empennage
Dimpled the 01473 L & R skins countersunk the longerons untill the compressor was too hot to touch and the drill was too cold to handle. Will finish the last couple of countersinks tomorrow. Dimpled the skins, broke a dimpledie in the C Frame. Borrowed from Mike Elstein the D2R2 dimpler (or whatever its called) nice. More even dimples, no stray holes in the skin and no bruised thumb. Really should have invested in one of those. Nice to have good neighbors.

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Jan 10, 2022     Bottom of empanage in place! Looking like something - (8 hours)       Category: Empennage
100s of dimples and rivets. Back rivited much of the bulkheads and stringers to the bottom by cleckoing and then taping the structures together so they didn't flop around. But had to put it back on teh stands invrerted to get that last 2 rows of rivets. Fred helped me drive those rivets. Did mess up one back rivet by missing the plate. (Sigh)

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Jan 06, 2022     another sub assembly - (6 hours)       Category: Empennage
Empennage bulkhead with stab attach points.

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Dec 27, 2021     Great progress today - (8 hours)       Category: Empennage
Lots of progress culiminating in completion of 10-8 with the tie down riveted in place. My priming has gotten better too....

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Dec 13, 2021     Been negligent in record keeping - (20 hours)       Category: Empennage
Fabricated the various parts for the rudder stops and the primed the attach points and the rudder stops. also incorporated the AD for aft fuselage cracks...

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Oct 29, 2021     Chapter 10 now underway..... - (4 hours)       Category: Empennage
Cut and deburred all the long pieces from the first page of Chapter 10 empanage. Been going slow since once this section is done I will be out of parts for months untill the wings and fuselage arrive.

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Oct 29, 2021     Done and stored - (2 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
finished the elevators. Now leaned up against the wall with all the other stored assemblies.

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Sep 17, 2021     Rolling the Elevators - (8 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Have been negligent in adding entries here. All the way to the final steps of the evelators. Finished installing the trim tab and the molex connectors today. Made the break on the top skins. and started rolling the bottom leading edges in preperation of closing up the elevators.

Hoping to have this done and in storage by tomorrow and move on to the rest of the empanage.



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Jun 13, 2021     Skins and spars on 2 elevaotrs - (5 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Closed up the forward Spars on both elevators with Help from Joe. Riveted the end ribs as well. All that is left of the elevators is the trailing edge wedge and to roll the leading edges...

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May 31, 2021     Main Spar in Category: Tail Feathers
Main spar in, ritveted to the ribs, and ends and about halfway done on on the skins....
 
May 30, 2021     CRAP - (3 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
as I was finishing up the trim tab, I managed to use the squeezer over a lightening hole on the trailing edge of the trim tab. GRRRRRRRR.... Trim tab done. (badly) will buff the spread out trailng edge wedge and will fill the mark before painitng.

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May 23, 2021     Trim tab and elevators/ - (3 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Closed up the trim tab (tank sealant finally came) and left it with the weighted board.

Also back rived all the elevator skins and started cleckoing the halves together.

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May 16, 2021     elevators trailing spar and skins. - (6 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Ribs to trailing edge spar Riveted the trailing edge spar to the bottom elevator skins. back riveted the skins to the ribs.

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May 15, 2021     elevator horns and tip skins and riveting. - (10 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
lots of rivets squeezed and driven today. Elevator tips, the doublers and anchors and the horns. I'm a little out of sequence cause I don't have any fuel tank sealer and am waiting for that to close up the trim tab.

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May 09, 2021     trim tab - (3 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Deburred and assembled the trim tab. Then broke it back down

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May 09, 2021     trim tab - (2 hours) Category: Tail Feathers
dimpled skins, Riveted front spar and trim horns in.
 
May 08, 2021     trim tab - (2 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
masked scuffed and cleaned the trim tab for the foamrimsbs

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May 02, 2021     contersinnk and dimples elevators. - (4 hours) Category: Tail Feathers
countersunk the after spar with the hinge of the elevators. dimpled all the spars the double plates for the trip etc.
 
May 01, 2021     Dimples dimples. - (4 hours) Category: Tail Feathers
Dimpled the elevator skins, the ribs, the ends etc. Countersunk the trailing edge piece.
 
Apr 30, 2021     deburrring. - (7 hours) Category: Tail Feathers
deburred all the pieces of the elevators and trim tabs
 
Apr 29, 2021     Elevator assembled completely, and then broken down - (9 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Finally got the whole elevator assembled. (2 hours lost researching how to deal with the trailing edge wedge.) got whole elevators assembled. Then broke down and deburred the entire left elevator. Will break down and deburr the right elevator tomorrow. Hopefully will be riveting by the PM.

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Apr 27, 2021     all the way through the trim tab hinges - (4 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Cleckoed the elevators together. Match drilled and deburred the hinges for the Trim tab

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Apr 19, 2021     ribs - (3 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
did the foam block ribs for the Trim tab. and the match drilling for the stab ends.

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Apr 18, 2021     beginning the elevators - (2 hours) Category: Tail Feathers
Cut the ribs, cleckeod the pieces together, straitend the end pieces.
 
Apr 12, 2021     Horizontal stab complete. - (5 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Horizontal stab complete and leaned out of the way in the hangar. On to the Elevators!

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Apr 11, 2021     almost done with horizontal stab' - (6 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
riveted the skins to the ribs stringers on the Horizontal stab. Clecoed in the rear spar and will finish the Horizontal stab tomorrow.

Eileen also finished her toolbox earlier in the day.

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Apr 10, 2021     finish forward spar Eileen works on her box as well - (2 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Finished the forward spar on the horizontal stab.
Eileen makes big progress on her tool box as well.fd

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Apr 09, 2021     rivet forward spar to skin - (03 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Fred and myself rivented one side of the Horizontal stab skin to the forward spar. Eileen did half the other side.

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Apr 08, 2021     horizontal stab skins - (5 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Riveted the nose ribs to the skin, added the forward spar assmebly and riveted to the nose ribs.

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Apr 06, 2021     back to riveting - (5 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
RIveted the center sections the ribs the nose ribs to the front spar. Got the skins in the forms and the nose ribs cleckoed in place.

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Apr 05, 2021     Counter sink countersinnk - (3 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Counter sunk forward and rear spars of the horizontal stab plus the stringers.

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Apr 04, 2021     dimples and countersinks - (2 hours) Category: Tail Feathers
Finished dimpling the skins. Started on the spars for the horizontal stab. Lots and lots of countersinking
 
Apr 04, 2021     dimples and countersinks Category: Tail Feathers
Finished dimpling the skins. Started on the spars for the horizontal stab. Lots and lots of countersinking
 
Apr 03, 2021     dimples again. - (6 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Prepped the covering and dimpled 80 percent of both Horizontal stab skins. Eileen match drilled the hinges on her tool box too.

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Apr 02, 2021     Cradles and ribs - (5 hours) Category: Tail Feathers
Made the 4 cradles to hold the horizontal stab while in construction. Dimpled all the ribs deburred.
 
Apr 01, 2021     Horizonal stab - (7 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
deburred, fluted straightened and bent all the various ribs for the Horizantal Stab. Eileen also worked on her tool box project and got one side riveted in place.

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Mar 31, 2021     RUDDER COMPLETE. All out of phase work done. - (4 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
The Rudder is finally complete. Finished the trailing edge. Formed and riveted the leading edge. Its straight and beautiful and I am pleased.

All out of phase items have been completed with the completion of the rudder. At the moment there are no delayed or deferred steps .

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Mar 30, 2021     Trailing edge riveting - (2 hours) Category: Tail Feathers
Partially riveted the trailing edge
 
Mar 29, 2021     rudder work - (3 hours) Category: Tail Feathers
Out of sequence stuff on the rudder.

Riveted skins to spar, and the top rib.
 
Mar 28, 2021     Horizontal Stab spars complete - (5 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Completed all the deburing and riveting for the Front spar of the horzontal stab, completeing both spars. Thats a lot of rivets.

Also, Eileen completed her light box and we hung it up in the place of honor

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Mar 27, 2021     Horizontal spar - (5 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Match drill, final drill, deburr the Horizonal stab spar, the Spar Caps, and the Spar doubler.

Thats a lot of holes!

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Mar 26, 2021     horizontal stab - (3 hours) Category: Tail Feathers
match drill and debur the spar caps.

Vans approved the Cherry Max solution for the nut plates on the rudder. Just waitinmg for the cherry max rivets to come from Aircraft spruce
 
Mar 19, 2021     Up and down day - (6 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Match drilled deburred and riveted the Trailedge Horizontal stabilizer spar, doubler and hinges. Riveted into place bearing is set at the center as well.

On the rudder riveted the counterweight rib to the skin, and then realized I had forgotten the k1000-6 nutplates. CRAP. I did manage to cleko then inbto place by reaching through the lightening holes. Hopefully Vans will approve 4 pop rivets to secure the nut plates. I'm amazed I was able to position them properly. But it chewed up an hour and most of my naughty vocabulary....

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Mar 17, 2021     Back to the rudder - (6 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Attached trailing edge wedge with the tape that got here a day early from Amazon, added the spar did all the pop riveting and started closing up the edges. Oh and got a hydraulic Squeezer so Eileen could help along with it

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Mar 16, 2021     deburring - (5 hours) Category: Tail Feathers
Deburred the horizantal stabilizer spar and the doubler. There are a lot of holes and surfaces. There has to be a better (FASTER) way.
 
Mar 15, 2021     220 + rivets driven - (7 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Riveted the stiffeners to the Rudder skins. and then the clips to the stiffeners.

Didn't have double sided tape to hold the trailing wedge in place, so I am at a stand till wednesday when Amazon will deliver the proper tape.

So then I started on the horizantal stab, deburring the main spar and the double4r for another couple of hours.

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Mar 14, 2021     I'm a dimpling fool - (9 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
All parts of the rudder dimpled or countersunk today.

Riveting starts tomorrow. VERY productive day.

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Mar 13, 2021     Rudder comes together. (for now) - (8 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Cleckoed frame together added skins and trailing edge wedge. final drilled all match drilled the counterweight portion. Lots of progress today. Thanks again to Fred Shriver stopping by to engage in some clecko work. Its always nice when your neighbor who already built an RV8 and an RV 12 comes over to help!

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Mar 07, 2021     Revisions slow you down. - (6 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers
Slow progress on the rudder today. Riveted the counterweight rib, and the other ribs to the spar along with the rudder horn. But numerous changes to the plans caused some out of order work, while I wait for new parts to arrive that were not part of the original plans. (Specirically to hold the weight in, and rivet length changes at the rudder horn. Supervising Eileen working on her light box project at the same time also tended to slow progress.

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Mar 06, 2021     Rudder skins - (3 hours) Category: Tail Feathers
Prepared the left and right rudder skins, started the cleckoing and match drilling of the top rib and counterweight rib of rudder.
 
Mar 04, 2021     Rudder skins - (3 hours) Category: Tail Feathers
New Rudder Skins arrived (The originals were damaged by placing them on edge on a bare concrete basement floor and moisture wicked up through the concrete onto the aluminum causing some corrosion.). were unrapped on the inside and the covering partially removed on the outsides. Trimming of the tabs for lap joints and deburring accomplished.
 
Mar 03, 2021     Van's reply on the vertical Stab - (3 hours) Category: Empennage
Van's builder support approved 4 pop rivets in the area of the hinge where I drove the rivets backwards, thereby denying myself the room required to form a shophead. Problem solved. Vertical Stab now finished, and hung from the wall out of the way to be forgotten about till later. On to the Rudder.
 
Mar 02, 2021     An Up and down day on the rudder. - (6 hours)       Category: Empennage
Well, went back to the Vertical Stab and tried to clean up 4 rivets in the area of the hinge bracket. Hoping Vans will give me permission to replace those with Pulled Rivets. (Skin to Spar on Vertical stab right around center rudder hinge bracket.

Then moved on to starting the rudder while I awaited the answer. Some of the parts had been done in 2014 back in NJ, so I got through first two pages of chapter 7 fairly quickly. Miracle of miracle I found all the parts. A little fluting a little deburring, and turned the page... Went looking for the rudder skins, and CRAP. Corrosion on the trailing edge of both skins. So I ordered new skins from Van's. (And the light box kit for Eileen to do, and about 100 extra pulled rivets, figuring that my Vertical Stab problems wouldn't be my last mistake) And now I wait for Fedex.

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Mar 01, 2021     HOORAY BACK IN BUSINESS - (6 hours)       Category: Empennage
With the Help of Fred Schriver we drove all the driven rivets in the Vertical stabilizer. Then I attached the rear spar and squeezed all those rivets with Eileen helping. The Vertical stab is complete! Back in business after not driving a rivet since November of 2014....

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Mar 01, 2021     padded boards to protect parts - (1 hour)       Category: Workshop
So I was going to carpet one of My EAA benches, (I had done that in the old shop) but I only have space for 2 benches and carpeting one would hamper me. So instead I took some shorter boards and carpeted them. I can protect any piece, AND I can also block those boards up so a laid down part with cleckos in it won't actually rest on the cleckos, I like that much better. Simple little thing. here are some pics.

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Feb 28, 2021     Sheetmetal class complete - (8 hours) Category: Research
EAA sheetmetal class complete. Good fun, good practice and well worth it, even if you have already started your project.
 
Feb 27, 2021     Day 1 of sheet metal class complete - (10 hours) Category: Research
Halfway through the EAA sheetmetal class over at lakeland.

Well worth it to get my hands working again before I damage a part that I had already invested significant time in because I had gotten rusty. Actually learned to use the gun and buck myself. (Had pretty much restricted myself to either bucking or driving but not doing both simultaneously.) Even if you are familiar with the process, its a strong confidence builder and worth it.

Gets you a discount on Aircraft Spruce. So cost wise hopefully its a wash.... But confidence wise. Priceless.
 
Feb 22, 2021     And now there are Two! - (3 hours)       Category: Workshop
Installed the lower shelf on the first, assembled the 2nd all except the lower shelf. The bugs were out and I had shut the hangar at dark, so i didn't want to do anymore sawing till tomorrow outside... But close enough. They match. The wheels work GREAT.

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Feb 21, 2021     EAA benches continued - (3 hours)       Category: Workshop
Assembled most of 1 bench (lower shelf still to be installed, but its up and rolling on its wheels and is great. Wheel locks seem to be strong enough to keep a steady work surface so I am pleased and the seecond one will have the wheels too. Thanks to Howard Dean who stopped by and talked rivet guns with me as well.

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Feb 20, 2021     EAA 1000 tables need to be built (AGAIN) - (5 hours)       Category: Workshop
Good day all around. Chapt 288 RV14 builders stopped by, looked at what few tail parts I had brought down completed from NJ and seamed to like them. Then I got busy still recreating my shop. Today was to build to EAA1000 work benches. Lumber is a LOT more expensive than when I built these in 2013. I used the same plans. http://www.eaa1000.av.org/technicl/worktabl/tablefig.htm Went to lowes, picked up the lumber and did all the sawing. Will do the assembly portion sunday or monday. Thanks to all that stopped by to encourage me. I will be making 1 deviation from the plans in that I am adding 3 inch locking/castoring wheels to the work bench so I can push them around as needed since space in the hangar is limited. Hopefully I won't have to shim anything to have a good work surface. a set of 8 added about 75 bucks to the total price tag.

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Feb 19, 2021     update 7 years old manuals - (1.5 hours) Category: Workshop
Updated all the changes to the builder manual that have accumulated since I received the kit in nov 2013. After I got done with that, I discovered that I could have just ordered an updated manual on a thumb drive, though I am not sure how much I would like that vs the paper that I wrote all over to mark my progress.
 
Feb 16, 2021     Repeat of things done in the past (Sigh) - (2.5 hours)       Category: Workshop
Built the table to go around c frame dimpler, as it didn't make the move from NJ to Florida. Nothing like doing the same thing again... And some organization of the (Tiny) corner of the hangar where I will be able to work. I also noticed that my Iphone pics aren't going to upload directly

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Feb 07, 2021     Restarting a long paused project - (0.1 hour) Category: Workshop
So I had started an RV14 when I was still living in Jersey, and then Hockey and union work intruded and after a good start on the vertical stabilizer all work stopped for 6 years. I just relocated into Spruce Creek and I am beginning the process of setting up the shop to continue the project. Covid has kept 288 from meeting in person, but I can't wait any longer... So I am reorganizing the hangar to restart work. First step will be to rebuild things that didn't make the move (The skirt around the C arm dimpler for example, and figuring out how to work in the corner of an active hangar that is ahem.... undersized....
 


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