Continuing to work on the fuselage. The big tasks lately are the seats, forward baggage compartment, and beginning the work on the boot cowl.
I have the seat frames built and one has been finished. I messed up the seat rail block that goes on the bottom seat frame, so I’m waiting on an additional one from RANS. I took a look at the updates they made to the seat system and I like the new one better. But, they don’t seem to have problems with the previous one, so I can’t be too fussy. The new style has the adjustment pieces on both fuselage tubes. That was the biggest thing I liked.
I pretty much have the forward baggage compartment finished now. I need to install the nut plates.
I started working on the boot cowl. The first item of business was fitting up the firewall. This was pretty straight forward. I would definitely have a good drill bit since the firewall is some pretty tough stuff. I was using a wood block held in my hand to hold the firewall against the fuselage while I was drilling. Well on one of my last holes I was drilling I was reflecting on how much it would hurt to find your hand with a drill bit and how I hoped I was holding the block in the right place. Wouldn’t you know I was slightly off. That resulted in a decent little injury to my palm. I’ll spare the pictures. It didn’t look too bad anyway without all the blood. It was only a #30 drill bit. I don’t do well with blood so I had to sit outside and cool off while not thinking about what I had done (which is impossible). That reset the injury free work days; 8 months was a good stretch.
In other exciting news, I’m planning on covering an aileron this weekend. I decided to switch over to Stewart Systems for the aircraft covering. The paint is still pretty hazardous, but the glue is much better to work with at the house.
I’ll get some pictures up soon.
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