Riveted the brake pedals together. Decided to machine countersink the front of the pedals and use flush rivets. I plan to put grip tape over the front of the pedals. So the universal rivets wouldn’t have worked for me.
I’ll hit the pedals with a final coat of paint to cover up the rivets tomorrow morning. Once that dries, I’ll apply the grip tape and cut out the lightening holes.
| Today’s Time (hours): | 1.0 |
| Fuselage Time (hours): | 161.0 |
| Total Time (hours): | 615.5 |
My sister and brother-in-law were in town for some turkey. So I enlisted John to help with prepping and painting all the rudder pedal parts. I decided to flat black everything. I’m going to go with some grip tape on the face of the brake pedals. We got all the parts cut, deburred and scuffed. Then painted with Rustoleum Painter’s Touch rattle-can.
We’ll let the paint cure tonight. Then we can assemble tomorrow and shoot another coat to cover the rivets.
| Today’s Time (hours): | 2.0 |
| Fuselage Time (hours): | 160.0 |
| Total Time (hours): | 614.5 |
Masked everything off in preparation for painting.
Now if I could just decide on a color. I got one of every shade of gray I could find. Then painted samples using old parts from the box-of-shame. In the center are the carpet and seat material swatches.
| Today’s Time (hours): | 3.0 |
| Fuselage Time (hours): | 158.0 |
| Total Time (hours): | 612.5 |
Machine countersunk the baggage floor splice plate and riveted in place.
dimpled the flap motor channel and installed the nut plates. Then riveted it in place. Riveted the flap motor brackets to it.
Riveted the baggage side walls in place.
Bam! Baggage area. Done.
| Today’s Time (hours): | 3.0 |
| Fuselage Time (hours): | 155.0 |
| Total Time (hours): | 609.5 |
Riveted the baggage area floor skins in place. Riveted the seat back hinges to the floor skins.
| Today’s Time (hours): | 3.0 |
| Fuselage Time (hours): | 152.0 |
| Total Time (hours): | 606.5 |
Fabricated the seat back hinges and match drilled to the floor skins.
Deburred, Scuffed, and primed all of the parts.
Dimpled the floor skins and riveted the nut plates in place.
Installed snap bushing and routed the rudder cables, static line, and ELT wire.
| Today’s Time (hours): | 5.0 |
| Fuselage Time (hours): | 149.0 |
| Total Time (hours): | 603.5 |
Remy helped me finish riveting the fuselage together. I can’t imagine doing this without a rotisserie.
| Today’s Time (hours): | 2.0 |
| Fuselage Time (hours): | 144.0 |
| Total Time (hours): | 598.5 |
Jared lent me the engine stand made into rotisserie that he fabricated for his RV-14 build. This is going to be a back-saver for me. It’s so much easier to work on in this position.
| Today’s Time (hours): | 1.0 |
| Fuselage Time (hours): | 142.0 |
| Total Time (hours): | 596.5 |
Picked and inspected all the parts. Then I peeled everything.
Fabricated the flap bushings and installed them into the fuselage.
| Today’s Time (hours): | 2.0 |
| Fuselage Time (hours): | 141.0 |
| Total Time (hours): | 595.5 |
Fabricated the fuel lines from metal tube. Installed the AN fluid fittings and flared the ends. Bent the lines using a tubing bender according to the dimensions in the plans. The 1:1 drawings in the plans were super helpful.
I got the loctite called out in the instructions for the fuel selector and used it on the screws to attach the fittings to the valve body. Then I installed the valve into the fuselage along with the fuel lines.
| Today’s Time (hours): | 3.0 |
| Fuselage Time (hours): | 139.0 |
| Total Time (hours): | 593.5 |
Ron's RV-14A Build Log 