Build Log for Sonex 0849B
Riveted forward seat pan hinge half to spar tunnel. Marked and located upper seat back hinge half onto cross tie box and pilot drilled. Updrilled hinge, deburred, and riveted. Located rear seat pan centered to ribs and pilot drilled. Located…
Updrilled hinge halves on seat pan channel, disassembled, deburred then riveted into final position. Installed forward seat pan with hinge pins then pinned forward mount hinge onto assembly. Located forward hinge onto spar tunnel and pilot drilled then updrilled. Removed…
Created miscellaneous hinges and hinge pins from P3 piano hinge stock. Assembled and riveted -02 and -04 seat pan assemblies. Located and pilot drilled hinge half’s to forward seat pan channel. Hours Worked: 6.60
Deburred tail wheel and spring holes and installed AN4 hardware through tail wheel assembly. Reinstalled clecoes on aft fuselage floor and took off of saw horses. Rolling chassis complete! Hours Worked: 1.26
Drilled 1/4″ hole in tail wheel spring using same method as landing gear legs. Updrilled bottom half of tail wheel mount bracket then through drilled entire assembly and installed hardware. Noticed a descent amount of slop between tail wheel spring…
Packed wheel bearings with Aeroshell 5 grease then installed tires onto axles. Tightened nuts then backed off until slight drag felt. Going to put off drilling cotter pin holes in axles until brake system is completed. Removed saw horses and…
Prepped wheel pant mount plates by marking new holes and cut-outs. Drilled mount holes and used combination of files and rotary tool for brake line hardware cut outs. Riveted nutplates onto outside of plates for wheel pant hardware. Assembled brake…
Drilled motor mount hole in new RH gear leg same as previous but used V block in drill press to ensure squareness. Deburred hole and attached new RH gear leg to fuselage with AN4-30A bolt. Drilled 1/8″ pilot hole through…
Began prepping wheel assemblies by using large socket to fully set wheel bearing races into rim halves. Prepped tires and tubes by removing Schrader vale and applying talc to tire and tube. Assembled wheel assembly with new bolts from hydraulic…
Leveled fuselage using wood blocks under tail. Clamped aluminum extrusion and spacers to axles and measured axle height from top of upper longerons. Began drilling RH axle. Realized part way through that toe in was not being measured from front…
Started by setting up drill press to drill titanium legs. Opted to not trim gear legs and left the 1/8″ longer than plans. Drilled main gear legs using slowest speed on drill press and 1/8″ cobalt drill bit. After initial…
Measured required bolt hole lengths which differed from plans. Used AN4-33A bolts for lower holes and AN4-32A bolts for upper holes. Inserted bolts into engine mount blocks then positioned mount on bolts. Torqued bolts to spec then applied torque seal.…