May 09, 2024     Riviting of Spar Reinforcement Fittings - (1 hour)       Category: Wings

Prepared the last 2 (of 16) Spar Reinforcement Plates and the Spars for riveting and bonding by cleaning with denatured alcohol. Riveted and bonded the 2 Plates onto the spar. All 16 of the 16 Spar Reinforcement Plates are now installed. Also, drilled out and replaced the one rivet that did not "seat" properly yesterday.

  May 08, 2024     Riviting of Spar Reinforcement Fittings - (1 hour) Category: Wings

Prepared the next 6 (of 16) Spar Reinforcement Plates and the Spars for riveting and bonding by cleaning with denatured alcohol. Riveted and bonded the 6 Plates onto 2 of the 4 spars. Total of 14 of the 16 Spar Reinforcement Plates are now installed. Also, one of the rivets did not appear to "seat" properly, so I will have to drill that out and re-rivet.

  May 07, 2024     Riviting of Spar Reinforcement Fittings - (.75 hour)       Category: Wings

Prepared another 4 (of 16) Spar Reinforcement Plates and the Spars for riveting and bonding by cleaning with denatured alcohol. Riveted and bonded the 4 of Plates onto 1 of the 4 spars. Total of 8 of the 16 Spar Reinforcement Plates are now installed.

  May 06, 2024     Riviting of Spar Reinforcement Fittings - (1.25 hours)       Category: Wings

Prepared the (16) Spar Reinforcement Plates and the Spars for riveting and bonding. Riveted and bonded 4 of the Plates onto 1 of the 4 spars. Thus 4 of the 16 Spar Reinforcement Plates are now installed.

  May 06, 2024     Spar Reinforcement Fittings - (4 hours) Category: Wings

Continued work on the sixteen (16) Spar Reinforcement Fittings. Completed all of the drilling and de-burring of the 16 Spar Reinforcement Plates as well as the Spar.

  Apr 30, 2024     Spar Reinforcement Fittings - (.75 hour)       Category: Wings

Continued work on the sixteen (16) Spar Reinforcement Fittings. Completed the drilling and de-burring of the 7th and 8th of the 16.

  Apr 28, 2024     Spar Reinforcement Fittings - (3.0 hours)       Category: Wings

Began work on the sixteen (16) Spar Reinforcement Fittings that go on the Front and Rear Spars to reinforce the Spar where it attaches to the Forward and Rear Spar Attachment Lugs on the Fuselage. Got 6 of the 16 drilled, de-burred, and clecoed.

  Apr 28, 2024     Wing Lift Strut Unpack and Prep - (1.0 hour) Category: Wings

Removed much of the foam wrapping from the Wing Lift Struts and located the mounting hardware for the Struts and assembled the hardware. (but didn't mount the Struts)

  Apr 28, 2024     Consolidate Parts into Fewer Boxes - (1.0 hour) Category: Inventory

Spent another good hour (while doing the earlier noted search for the STi Wing instructions) to also consolidate items from relatively empty boxes so as to take up less storage space. Did some labeling of boxes as well to make it easier to locate things in the future.

  Apr 28, 2024     Search for STi Wing Instructions - (1 hour) Category: Inventory

Was puzzled by the non-STi Wing instructions I was following recently, so made a long effort to search all boxes for any additional instructions for the STi Wing that I had overlooked. Eventually found stored with a binder of kitfox docs, so moved it to the Assembly Manual replacing the very similar non-STi Wing instruction chapter. Spent a good hour searching.