May need to fabricate a few small parts, so worked briefly on reassembling the CNC machine. Too cold to work long though. On a completely unrelated note, also building an ukulele, and definitely need it up and running to cut some inlays.
Airplane Section: Tools / Hardware
Finished Wing Cradle
Completed Wing Cradle
Completed Wing Cradle
Center Wings on Cradle
Center Wings on Cradle
Outer Wings Stored in Cradle For Now
Wing Cradle in Place
It was rainy before work this morning, so instead of jogging at 0600, I spent an hour or so cleaning up last night’s build work and cutting the carpet pieces to attach to the supports. I attached the carpet pieces to the supports, and tested them with my body weight. The leftover carpet is stored in the Onex parts cabinet. There is enough left to replace 3 pieces of the 67″ x 6″ carpet supports, as well as a larger left over piece not cut to length. At that point I moved the wings onto the cradle. I feel much better with them off the floor. It’s also nice to reclaim the floor space. Now I just need a better place to store the ailerons and flaps than the table they are perched on. I supposed that would be installing them on the finished wings, lol…. Now I need to decide how to proceed…finish the fuselage clecos? Mount the canopy? Finish the wings? Not sure yet, so I will audit plans this weekend and try to determine what to do next. Since this weekend is our annual airpark HOA meeting and fly-in, probably not much build work this weekend. Next weekend I will traveling on the official EAA build night for the project, so not much progress over the next 10 days expected.
Wing Cradle Progress
Wing Stand Plans
Wing Stand Plans
Shan Building the Stands
Shan Building the Stands
Nearly Finished Cradle
Nearly Finished Cradle
Been working on a wing cradle to get the center wing sections that are complete stored someplace a little safer than on cushions on the floor. Three hours last week and three hours this week of work and the stand is near complete. All that remains is to cut four strips of carpet and tack it onto each of the support areas.
The design is a modified version of the classic EAA stand/cradle but shortened in width to accommodate the fact that only the center section of my wings are complete.