I have been traveling frequently for work which eats up entire weeks at a time. In several cases weeks at a time. My job makes this build possible, so maybe in an indirect way it's a building activity... All the travel has made the last few months of building sporadic, often ending up finding little things to do but not doing big needle moving changes... and I'm still on section 45... I did complete the initial glassing of the windshield fairing. It's extremely ugly right now but I wanted to wait until I get the doors on and latching before working the external cabin top.
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| Windshield Fairing peel ply'd |
Working on the door latching I did a terrible job documenting the process. It's actually a bit confusing because I'm using the some of the stock parts, the Aerosport flush mount handle and finally the PlaneAround 180 degree latch kit. During the 15 or so hours I've spent on these it was broken up by numerous days and it was enough to juggle between the three different set of instructions figuring out what I need to do and when.
I'm also using cam locks by FortX vs the ACS locks that I think the handles were designed for. So I had to do some trail and error engineering to get it to fit flush on the outside and function on the inside. My end solution was to split a rubber grommet and shape it into a gasket that fit around the lock making it proud enough to line up flush with the glamour plate of the handle kit. Again I didn't take any pictures of the process but you can see the end fit on a picture.
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| Working handles |
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| Door slotted |
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| Exterior handle, with lock |
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| Interior handle, with lock |
I still have quite a bit to do. I am filling some time working on things like the tires, brakes, engine mount ect. But will wait till those sections to post the pictures. On the door it's mostly the inner workings and get them on the plane. Hope to have that done in the next week or so, before I go out of town again.
