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| Tail cone cleco'd together and ready to rivet the side skins/stringers. |
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| Oh yea, I ordered a gallon of primer from Aircraft Spruce early this month. After lots of delays it finally showed up this week and this is what I saw when I opened the box. Azko is very smelly stuff so you can see there was a small amount starting to leak out of the sealed plastic bag. |
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| And this is what it looked like when I pulled the bag out of the box. |
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| And finally when I removed the plastic bag....what a waste. Aircraft Spruce is sending me another batch and they filed a claim with UPS but this was a mess to deal with. |
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| Here you can see the backplate that I am using to do the back riveting. I have to tilt the tail cone precisely for each rivet on the rounded edge. You can also see the 2x2 fixed in my vice that I used to brace the edge of the tail cone once I got it at the correct angle. |
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| Speaking of correct angles for back riveting....this is how I knew my angle was correct. I put this small round spacer next to the rivet I was getting ready to smash...then I tilted the structure until the round spacer lined up with the rivet, tied it off, and pounded away. Came out very nice! Gotta love gravity. |
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| Tail riveted and bolted together. |
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| Aft looking forward with the top skins removed |
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| Everybody has to have one so here is another view from inside looking aft. |
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| These are the clips I fabricated to hold the static lines as the pass over the bulkhead. |
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| I plan on having a ventilation source for the back seats. This is the drawing I used to cut the holes in each side of the tailcone. |
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| And here it is after cutting the hole. |
