Finished riveting the firewall together.
Reamed the engine mount attach hole to .375.
Riveted relay doubler and all the nut plates to the firewall.
| Today’s Time (hours): | 1.5 |
| Fuselage Time (hours): | 63.0 |
| Total Time (hours): | 517.5 |
Dimpled the bottom skin. Today’s word of the day: unwieldy.
Riveted the doublers and stiffeners to the bottom skin.
Dimpled the gear brace bracket and machine countersunk the gear brace bars. Riveted the gear brace assembly together and then riveted it to the skin.
Clamped the lower fuselage substructure to the bench and clecoed the skin to it. Ready for riveting.
| Today’s Time (hours): | 6.0 |
| Fuselage Time (hours): | 37.0 |
| Total Time (hours): | 491.5 |
Received the new bulkhead bars from Van’s. Cut and deburred them. Scuffed them, Machine countersunk and riveted them. Reamed all the holes and bolted them to the aft bulkhead.
| Today’s Time (hours): | 2.0 |
| Fuselage Time (hours): | 22.0 |
| Total Time (hours): | 476.5 |
Riveted the cover ribs to the forward center section bulkhead. Added the AN3 bolts, nuts, and washers and torqued them down.
Secured the bearing bracket braces to the bearing brackets with screws, washers, and nuts. The riveted them to the bulkhead and opposing ribs.
Reamed the .375 and .311 holes in the center section bulkheads.
The parts I ordered from vans should be here Tuesday. Then I can finish out this section.
| Today’s Time (hours): | 2.0 |
| Fuselage Time (hours): | 13.0 |
| Total Time (hours): | 467.5 |
Did some flying with Jared today in his RV-14A. Awesome day dancing around some scattered clouds and some fun aerobatics. Thanks for the great flight today, Jared! The aerobatic training is definitely paying off. Sorry no pics. I was having too much fun!
Meanwhile back at the airplane factory…
Received the replacement parts from vans and did the little bit of fabrication necessary to prepare the doublers and attach brackets.
Deburred and primed the new parts with SEM rattle can primer. Riveted the attach brackets to the hinge.
Riveted the hinge and doublers to the right rear spar.
The mistake cost me $45 in parts and an hour and a half of build time.
Got my new 3/8″ reamer from McMaster Carr. Used it in the drill press to precisely size the rear spar attach holes. The twisted flutes cut like butter.
Clecoed the rear spars to the wing ribs. Ready to rivet tomorrow.
| Today’s Time (hours): | 2.0 |
| Wing Time (hours): | 67.0 |
| Total Time (hours): | 278.0 |
Ron's RV-14A Build Log 