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Seeing how ribs 2,3,4 line up. Get a belt sander 4x36, you'll be glad you did. Mine is from Harbor Freight.
Date: 01/25/2013
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Dont judge me! You know you do it too. Anyways, was trying to see if my weight would cause the nose to come down. As you can see she likes being a tail dragger.
Date: 01/26/2014
Views: 7953
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Port side. Fitting of LG socket.
Date: 10/01/2012
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The gap from the bottom of the socket and the belly is as you see. The only way to get it all the way down was to lower the belly to 15" which was not considered an option. Belly hight is 16.0" with the axle width at 82.50" and axle cent
Date: 01/23/2013
Views: 7886
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Uncle Kim at work. We would tilt to starboard to work on the port side vice versa.
Date: 01/23/2013
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Port side Rib 2 layup.
Date: 01/26/2013
Views: 7690
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Date: 01/26/2014
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Landing gear parts. The nose gear leg is having MOD 53 performed on it at my fauther in-laws.
Date: 04/10/2012
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dsc09038
To make our backs happy and life 1000% easier we tilted the fuselage. Notice I used my monowheel trailer as a jig. A tow strap 4" wide was used in the rear to hold the tail. This was rock solid.
Date: 01/23/2013
Views: 7553
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Rib 2 stbd side.
Date: 01/25/2013
Views: 7526
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dsc09028
Here the axles are getting the green goop. I used car carnauba wax as a release agent. Worked well jut get it on there thick. We also wrapped the top of the sockets with glad wrap to keep contaminates off of it while we moved it around.
Date: 01/22/2013
Views: 7518
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Here you see I used bondo on the shims and screwed them down into the block. The shims made sure the guide was level. Also note the hole drilled in the Aluminum angle and the shim. This is where I fixed the guide for the curing stage to ensure nothing
Date: 01/22/2013
Views: 7481
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dsc09065
Stbd side peel ply removed.
Date: 01/25/2013
Views: 7463
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Stbd side after cure. We died the uni in with rib 1.
Date: 01/26/2013
Views: 7341
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Port side done after cure.
Date: 01/23/2013
Views: 7331
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Wetting out stbd side.
Date: 01/24/2013
Views: 7287
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Port side guides being placed for layup.
Date: 01/23/2013
Views: 7272
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Rib 2 template.
Date: 01/26/2013
Views: 7258
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dsc09021
BIG THANK YOU to my Uncle Kim Prout for flying out to help me with getting the gear legs set. He also helped me slow down and plan ahead. As an excited new builder its easy to get in a rush to try achieve something tangible. Im sure after that week of b
Date: 01/22/2013
Views: 7254
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dsc08641
Was going to use another plywood rib here but decided that the wide strap works fine. I later added some foam to the strap to give it some padding.
Date: 04/15/2012
Views: 7248
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