I told you it would be a while until my next update. However, I spent the whole day in the garage again today and at least 4 hours with Travis helping me last night. Travis and I managed to get a significant portion of the tail cone riveted and he is coming back on Tuesday to help me finish it up. Today I moved on to the center section of the fuselage. Lots of edge dressing, deburring, and fluting but by the end of the day I had most of the thing cleco'd together and ready for final drilling.
I also forgot to mention that I got a goody in the mail last week while I was gone. My Tosten grips arrived!
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I just couldnt wait. Had to take one out and give it a try. To bad they don't come with wiring diagrams. |
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Yep, it fits nicely. |
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The center section of the fuselage all cleco'd together ready for some drilling in the morning. |
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The result of our work. just the aft part to do yet. |