Bottom of the Fuselage

Not a lot to show.  Just more work on the fuselage.

Got the control bar in

Some ribs and some riveting

Scalops

Ed was in the hospital today for a small operation but he made it back in time to do some riveting.



Along with his daughter



Jumping ahead

Starting to skin the bottom





More work on the Fuselage

Not much to tell.  Just smoothing and riveting

Putting the engine in an RV-12

Today I put an engine in an RV-12.  I was all set to work on my fuselage all day but I got a call from Gary on Friday night and he needed help putting the engine his bird.  Gary lives about 5 miles away from me and he is almost finished with his RV-12.  I was happy to help.  The engine went in without any problems.

Making good metal into Scrap

Sunday was a bad build day for me.  I completed the seat rib assembly but did not want to attach it to the main bulkhead as I still have some rivets to pull when I get a new rivet puller.  I went on with the forward bulkhead on pages 21-10. I started with countersinking the control column mount.  I marked them so that I would drill the right side.  But, by the time I had completed the 3^rd unit, I realized I had marked the wrong side and just created 3 scrap pieces.  Then I went on to counter sink the bulkhead.  This time I confirmed that I had the correct side.  I reached up to grab one of my brand new scrap pieces so that I could set the counter sink cage.  All went well until I realized that I had grabbed the spar support bracket and I just created my 4^th piece of scrap.  I went to drill out the 7/16^th holes in the bulkhead and without going into detail, let’s just say that I made my last piece of scrap metal for the day.  I was done until next week end.

Lots of Scrap.......

More Fuselage Work

Started working on the front seat.  No riveting yet.  Just clecos

The new bulkhead arrived Tuesday and I started assembling all the parts I worked on last weekend

I made a mistake and riveted the hinges one hole to the left to far.  Drilled it out and all is good now

By the end of the day I had a good start on the fuselage

Working on the Fuselage

Today I spent the day working on the seat ribs.  Not much to talk about but a few pictures

Moving ahead on the fuselage

Last weekend I made a mistake with the rear fuselage bulkhead.  I used the machine counter sink instead of dimpling the holes.  I ordered a new part but it did not come in time for this weekend’s work  so I am reading ahead and doing what I can.  I will cleco the parts together for now and rivet them when I get the new bulk head

Here is the part with the bad holes

I dimpled the floor holes

and started some assembly

Did the bearing mounts

Then I built the pully box and Flaperon mixer