28-09 Vent Assemblies – A Puzzle!
The Vent Doors & hinges are stainless steel, but the Vent Inlets & Vent Sides are Aluminium so need priming. But of course these components will get quite hot, so I decided to prime with…
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28-04 Tunnel and more Sticky Stuff!
Tunnel Sides The bottom flange of the tunnel sides have a bead of Proseal applied during the riveting to the fwd lower skins. I think this is to guard against the ingress of oil etc…
28-02 to 04 Riveting Stiffeners & Doublers
I used the C-Frame to help with back riveting the antenna doublers. A mushroom set in the C-Frame underneath the workpiece seems to work a treat. I was worried about dropping something on the skins…
28-09 to 10 Vent Inlet Assembly & Battery Box Preparation
The hinges for the Vent Door Assemblies are made from Stainless Steel Hinge material. I found that my raw hinge had been cut so as to make it impossible to start a fabricated hinge length…
Section 28 Fwd Fuse Lower Structure – Preparing Parts
Fwd Bottom Skins As usual I started this section by working through the manual preparing parts ready for priming. One of the first jobs was to enlarge the communications antenna holes in the lower skins…
27-05 to 07 Firewall Complete!
Progress has been a bit slow recently … I’ve had to do lots of DIY in the house. And of course I had a great week in Oshkosh – at last sitting in Van’s RV14…
Fun Distraction!
It’s been on my “Bucket List” for a very long time, and next week my riveting partner Tim and a couple of other friends are flying over to Chicago and driving to Oshkosh! I’m really…
27-02 to 04 Firewall Riveting
We’ve been having a bit of building work done on the house, so I’ve had the enforced distraction of dipping a paint brush in emulsion to do some decorating. This has slowed RV14 progress, but…
27 – Firewall Part Preparation
Nice to begin a new section! The usual deburring and reading ahead to prepare the parts for priming. Final-Drilling the #30 holes in the F-01490 Nose Gear Brackets. I did this before priming the Firewall…
26-20 to 22 Section 26 Completed!!!
A long rivet set on the gun was a good option to set the bulkhead/rib rivets. The holes in the ribs which incorporate the seat belt lug brackets proved difficult to insert rivets … a…