Mar 27, 2024     Finish kit payments - (.1 hour) Category: Fuselage

Final paymennt for finish kit

  Nov 13, 2022     Roll bar created and installed. - (10 hours)       Category: Fuselage

  Nov 03, 2022     Elevator push rods in. - (4 hours)       Category: Fuselage

  Nov 03, 2022     Elevator push Rods - (12 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Created the pushrods, Installed most of the pushrods for the elevators... Priming was a mess and took a long time including a redo.

  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.

  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.

  Oct 14, 2022     pedals in and first test fitting - (4 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Finshed and installed the rudder pedals and test fit with Eileen.

  Oct 13, 2022     Pedals and cylinders installed. - (4 hours)       Category: Fuselage

  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.

  Oct 10, 2022     baggage compartment complete - (5 hours)       Category: Fuselage

finished the baggage compartment panels. No paint for me. One ding in the corner that will piss me off forever....

  Sep 22, 2022     Floor is in, flap motor fairing started - (6 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Finished the baggage floor. Added the join of the two halves and the back half of the flapmotor fairing. See the pics.

  Sep 21, 2022     installing the baggage floor. - (6 hours)       Category: Fuselage

Baggage floor being installed.

  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

  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)

  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.

  Aug 30, 2022     Baggage bulkheads.... - (4 hours)       Category: Fuselage

dimples and nutplates, plenty to go around on the baggage bulkheads.

  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.

  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

  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.

  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.

  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

  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