K1000-8
Cowl Nutplates and Oil Door Fabrication
Updrilled cowl shelf, lower cowl, and upper cowl, and drilled and riveted nut plates onto cowl shelf and lower cowl. Temporarily installed upper cowl onto aircraft with screws to verify alignment and fitment; checks good. Located oil dipstick with flashlight and marked location of oil door on upper cowl. Removed upper cowl and cut rough…
Autopilot Installation – Part 2
Attached D-sub connector to roll servo wires then installed servo onto fuselage floor. Attached aileron servo push rod and verified servo arm did not contact over center bracket. Roughed in location of pitch servo and marked bracket location on floor. Removed pitch servo and installed Dynon-provided stiffener on floor. Installed servo onto bracket, installed over-center…
Autopilot Installation – Part 1
Attached roll servo pushrod to LH control stick frame per Dynon instruction sheet. Trialed rough location for roll servo under RH side of forward seat pan and verified clearance and freedom of movement. Transferred mounting hole location to fuselage floor and updrilled holes for mounting bolts. Trimmed provided stiffener angle and riveted stiffener to fuselage…
Fuselage Floor Avionics – Part 1
Clecoed forward fuselage floor back onto fuselage to start under seat component layout. Made riser mounts for ADSB, transponder, and com boxes so that nutplates could be used out of scrap aluminum. Riveted mounts to fuselage floor behind seat pan and bolted SV-COM-T25, SV-ADSB-472, and SV-XPNDR-261 units into place. Drilled holes for transponder and ADS-B…
Avionics Sub-panel – Part 2
Created mount angle for EMS and ARINC module from scrap 0.032 sheet due to lack of clearance for modules with connectors on both ends. Riveted nut plates to vertical mount and then riveted mount to avionics shelf. Laid out backup battery, wig wag module, and fuel probe box onto shelf and marked mounting holes. Installed…
Wingtip Installation
Installed nutplates for wingtip light fairings onto wing tips and riveted wingtips onto wings with AAP-42 aluminum rivets. After wingtips were installed, sanded rivets in preparation of paint. Hours Worked: 1.30
LH Landing Light – Part 2
Riveted together both sides of light mount plate. Installed #8 nutplates into mount and secured LH landing light and retaining ring to mount. Mounted complete light assembly onto forward ribs and checked operation of light Hours Worked: 0.55
Pitot Mount Prep – Part 3
Nut plates installed on Pitot mount. Pitot controller remounted to #4 rib with 632R6 screws. Pitot tube mocked up in bracket and lines bent to offset connections above inspection plate. Tygon tubing ran through support plates. White indicates pitot line and yellow indicates AOA line. Pitot tube mount screws still need to be drilled and…
RH Landing Light – Part 3
Replaced light retainer nutplates for #8 screws on RH landing light mount and reinstalled Hours Worked: 0.38
