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Tail Surfaces Paint Prep
Cleaned, prepped, and masked tail surfaces in same manner as previous parts. Removed hinge pins from flaps and ailerons to use on other parts while painting. Hours Worked: 2.15
Wing Paint Prep
Prepared wings for paint in the same manner as the fuselage. At the same time, masked opening in wings and riveted wing skin doublers into place. Hours Worked: 3.70
Small Part, Flap, and Aileron Painting
Started by prepping small parts, ailerons, and flaps for paint by treating all metal surfaces with maroon scotchbrite and fiberglass surfaces with 120 grit then 240 grit sandpaper. Blew dust off of all parts then cleaned everything with acetone. Inserted hinge pins into control surfaces to keep piano hinges clean of paint. Setup paint booth…
Wing Tip Finishing – Part 2
Removed wing tips from wing after letting SuperFil cure. While not the most elegant (or clean) epoxy job, it did take up the gap pretty well. Removed packing tape from edge of wing and lightly reshaped the edge of the wingtips. Removed ailerons and faps from the wings to prepare for paint. Hours Worked: 0.90
Wing Tip Finishing – Part 1
Began prepping wingtips and tip light fairings for paint and final finishing. Located tip lights onto wing tip light fairings and drilled wire pass through hole and mounting screw holes; tip lights will attach to fairing with Dynon panel screws and elastic nuts. Located tip light fairings on the wing tips by aligning center of…
Paint Stands
Built paint hangar stands for hanging control surfaces during painting out of scrap 2×4, 4×4, and 3/4″ EMT. Hours Worked: 1.27
Fuselage Paint Prep – Part 2
Finished prep of the fuselage for paint by masking off the ELT tray and straps, covering the baggage area with plastic, and masking off the seating area and firewall. Fuselage now completely masked and ready for paint. Hours Worked: 0.95
Fuselage Paint Prep – Part 1
Began prepping fuselage for paint by removing tail components and setting off to the side. Removed inspection covers, pitot plumbing fittings, wing connectors, and vents from fuselage as well. Taped off edges of windshield with nice striping tape, then finished covering windshield with kraft paper and blue painters tape along with canopy sill on aft…
Hole Filling
Finished fuselage conversion steps by applying jb weld to holes from original side skin left over from conversion process. Hours Worked: 0.14
Tail Tip Fairings – Part 2
Started process of final shaping of the tail tip fairings by mounting fairings back onto the tail and contouring leading edge with 80 grit sandpaper. Luckily put enough SuperFil into each cavity that there was enough material to work with. After tips were shaped, removed them and sanded entire tip with 120 grit then 240…
Tail Fairing Panels – Part 2
Continued to work on tail fairing panels by annealing panels via sharpie method; scribbled sharpie on the panels then heated them via torch until sharpie marks began to disappear. After annealing, worked panels over a couple scrap pieces of pipe to work curve into the panels; this method worked much better than expected. After shaping…
Canopy Installation – Part 1
Began final canopy installation by drilling the rest of the hinge rivet holes in the upper longeron and installing rivets. Quick painted the rivets by hand with a brush along with other minor touchups of black paint. Updrilled canopy hinge and side trim holes to 9/64″ and deburred. Installed closure spring on the canopy latch…
