After a long work-induced hiatus, I did some small plane task today…I fluted VS-1207:

After a long work-induced hiatus, I did some small plane task today…I fluted VS-1207:

Running time: 27 hours
I learned how to flute today…I also learned how to use the seamer when fluting too much:

Running time: 25 hours
I’ve been working on-and-off the last week or so on deburring all the remaining edges on the vertical stabilizer pieces. All done–I’m not sure if this is any more efficient than just deburring a part the first time the instructions refer to it, but I feel like doing it this way gets one into the rhythm of doing something on the plane every night or so.
Running Time: 20 hours
I spent time this weekend learning to spray paint…my technique has been to clean with acetone, then spray with Dupli-Color self-etching primer.
I’ve also been playing around with a soldering pen to remove the blue plastic… My lines aren’t particularly straight but they are good enough to keep the metal better protected while I am working.


Running Time: 17 hours
I’ve been doing a lot of drilling and deburring work on the VS-1212A-R and VS-1212B-R spar cap pieces:

Running Time: 12 hours
I finished drilling and deburring on the hinge brackets, but I would like to prime them before riveting. Since it’s quite dark, and raining…and I’ve never actually applied self-etching primer on anything before, maybe the priming will have to wait for another day.
In the mean time, I moved on to page 06-03, and have separated the two pieces of both the left and right spar caps. Also filed the extraneous material off of the places where I cut them apart with a hacksaw.
I think my next project is going to be scuffing up a wing section I made at an EAA SportAir workshop a few years ago, and seeing how the Dupli-Color self-etching primer turns out.
Running Time: 10 hours
Did filing and part cleanup.
Running Time: 9
I made a whole bunch of AEX wedges over the past few days. I figured I will end up losing them over time, so why not?
I also cut the brackets apart with a hacksaw. They still need to be filed down where the cuts are.
Running Time: 6.25
I spent several hours setting up shop, finding tools, putting rivets in containers…just to be able to reach my workbench.
I refused to go to bed before doing at least one real build step. I skipped AEX wedge fabrication (that’s just tooling, not building, right?) and went to the first real task–final drilling #12 holes in VS-1210 hinge brackets:
I am now rediscovering/re-remembering that my air drill is leaking air, even when not drilling. D’oh!
Running build time: 6 hours
I finished inventory of the empennage kit this week–a single missing nutplate. I did not count all 12,500 blind rivets though. 🙂