Saturday, March 01, 2014

More bolts in the spar

The right side. The black plastic liner is to be placed on the fwd side (obviously when thinking about it).



Except for 30 and 40 drill bits, the Drill Doctor works excellent.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Bolts in mid spar

Drilled and reamed all the holes for the bolts on the left side. I'm not sure if the black plastic sleeve/block for the wing pins are to mounted fwd or aft on the spar.


Sunday, February 23, 2014

Deburring mid spar

Finished deburring the main spar. Cleco'ed together again and drilled/reamed for the AN3 bolted rib attachment. Started drilling the steel bits as well.


Ordered some angle stock from Sandelving to make new and correct attachment angles. The ones that came with the Machined Angle Components was wrong due to error in the drawings. Can't wait for Sonex to straighten up and do what is right, have a feeling it may take ages.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Deburring

Finally home again and started deburring the main spar.

The Drill Doctor was a bit disappointing. It is not usable for 40 and 30 bits. It is simply not accurate enough. All in all a waste of money, it's better to just purchase a bunch of 30 and 40 drill bits and throw them away when they are worn. For larger bits both the relative and the absolute accuracy increases so it will be OK I guess, or hope.

I also have to fix the 9.9.13 ONX-W10-03L/R revision. I will do that by making new parts from angle stock.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Drilled mid wing spar


Still have to drill up all the steel at the tips. I'm not sure if it's best to take them now, or after the spar is riveted. Have to sleep on it.

The 3 in 1 paint is really good, and readily available locally and exist in many colors. Just have to make sure it cures for 3-4 days and it is like stone and stick like glue. It is matt/satin and very easy to spray. Gray and orange with this satin finish will look cool. Regarding paint, I think I have 4 options now. 3 in 1 which I can do myself. Jotun Topgloss BR which I also can do myself, but I'm still not convinced the end result will be OK due to milkyness when polished. Polish it (combined with 3 in 1). The last option is to fly it to Lithuania/Poland when finished and paint it there by professional aircraft painters, much cheaper than to do it in Norway.