1.8 Hours –
Although I had the time, today wasn’t a big airplane day. I was lacking motivation to work on the airplane, or do just about anything else. All in all, a pretty lazy day.
The section of hinge on the bottom of the seat backs still needed to be riveted. Now that I knew the seats fit well, I could go ahead and rivet the hinge. All of these rivets could be squeezed, so it didn’t take much time to complete.
I’m at the point now where I don’t necessarily go step by step in the instructions. For one, the instructions have become incredibly vague. In addition, I like to tailor my work to what I think I will have time to finish. Now, I simply look at what parts I have remaining, and then decide what I want to work on for the day.
Today, I decided to work on the F-704K upright cap strips. These pieces cover up the gap between the vertical sections of the F-704 bulkhead. The left F-704K fit perfectly, but the right needed a little trimming because part of the canopy deck flange interfered. Once the parts were clecoed on, I simply final-drilled them and then took them off for deburring, priming, and paint. The F-782 cover plates also needed to be painted, so I quickly completed the deburring that needed to be done on those so they could be painted at the same time as the F-704Ks.
The right F-704K upright cap strip fit to the F-704 bulkhead.
More priming and painting. Here the F-704K upright cap strips and the F-782A cover plates have been primed.
Ethan's RV-7 