9-10-05 to 10-14-05
34.5 Hours

Decided on a location for the VOR Ant.. Rear floor of the fuselage. Drilled holes for Ant. exit. Plastic tubing on the Ant protects it from the skin.
Assembled main wheel assemblies and mounted to main gear. Mounted main gear to fuselage.
Drilled static port locations, Drilled rear fuselage inspection plates. Countersunk the static ports. Made doubler plate for the VOR puck and match drilled to the fuselage.
Riveted the static ports into place. Finished dimpling the upper parts of the tail cone bulkheads. Fabed a die out of scrap alum. and used a AN3 screw to dimple the tail floor for the VOR ant. mount.
Had to cut the VOR base(puck) ears off and move to the other side of the puck. There was not enough room for the 90 Deg. connector. Since I was working on the tail I decided to Drill and tap for the Empennage gap cover. Dimpled for #6 screws.
Deburred, dimpled and countersunk forward instrument sub panels and associated components.
Fabricated the elevator pushrod tubes. Dia. x 3.14 Divided by the number of holes gives hole to hole spacing.
Primed a lot of parts. Riveted the sub panel components.
Mounted the VOR Ant Puck and ran the rudder cables.
Riveted the F787. Drilled out the hole for the threaded rod. riveted the F709 bulkhead.
Original idea was to mount this connector down and use a 90 deg connector. Problem I discovered later was the 90 Deg connector was too large.
Added these clamps to keep the tubing from rubbing on the pedals when they actuated.
Thanks to Mike Schipper and his website for helping me understand how this went together!
I tapped and dimpled the Horz Stab gap fairing while there is room to turn a tap handle. Yes, I mounted the H.S. to position and drill the faring.
Finally my brain went to work. I had already drilled the exit hole in the skin for the Ant.n so I couldn't change the hight of the puck and the connector wouldn't fit underneath so I cut the legs off and flipped the puck over putting the connector on the top.
Aircraft Spruce static ports.
Subpanel parts primed and riveted into place.
Thanks again Mike!
Here's a day I thought would never come! Feels good to see her on her legs ....
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