One of my clients is an electrician and he’s coming by today to do some work on the shop. Before I put up drywall on the far wall, I wanted to get some outlets installed over there. Also, he is going to run a dedicated circuit to those outlets, install some switches and hang a [...]
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I had a little help from Isaiah – in the form of trying to drive his tricycle over the rudder skins – and now nearly all the rudder components are ready to prime and assemble. The only remaining thing to do is to countersink both sides of the trailing edge piece. I will use a [...]
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Super bowl Sunday and we are all snowed in. We have about ten inches on the ground. It snowed all weekend but today was a beautiful day to dig out. Last night, I took all of the rudder components – ribs, spar and skins – inside the house and sat down in the family room [...]
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I final-drilled all of the rudder and disassembled it per the plans. Unfortunately, there were a couple of places where the clecoes must have been rubbing against something while we moved, and that left some small deformations around those particular holes. It’s nothing major, just an annoyance. I’m building an airplane and every rivet doesn’t [...]
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I stopped by home depot yesterday and picked up 6 rolls of faced insulation 32′ in length. If I’m going to take advantage of the project being at the house all year long, I’m going to need some more protection between me and the elements. It took me about three hours to get the entire [...]
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