- Apply second brush coat of EkoFill to fuselage sides
- Mask fuselage internals and spray 2 crosscoats of filler on to fuselage sides
- Apply EkoFill to control surfaces: rudder, two off ailerons, two off flaps, two off elevators, two off horizontal stabilisers
- Make drainholes in control surfaces
- Apply EkoPoly to control surfaces
- Prime and top coat all cowl attach brackets and spacers
- Final fit front fuselage side panels and rivet into place on firewall with cowl attach brackets
- Reprime front fuselage sides with EkoPrime to ensure topcoat colour match
- Reprime front fuselage lower panel with EkoPrime to ensure topcoat colour match
- Cut access hole in combing to allow fuel level sender to be calibrated, make and fit removable cover
- Respay combing and refit
- Fabricate internal and external cover plates over tank filler hole in windscreen, prime and topcoat
- Install tank filler in windscreen and refit windscreen
- Rivet Front windscreen edge strip to firewall and cowl attach brackets
- Rivet lower cowl attach brackets to firewall
- Prime undercarriage legs
- Topcoat complete fuselage and undercarriage with white EkoPoly
- Final weld right door latch
- Fabricate left and right door latch covers
- Fabric cover left and right door internal structure
- Apply EkoFill to door internal skins
- Topcoat doors with white EkoPoly
- Fabricate and install remaining transparencies: Two off door, two off forward fuselage sides, two off rear fuselage sides
- Seal inside of airbox with pigmented resin
- Paint topcoat airbox metalwork
- Rivet together airbox
- Apply second coat of pigmented resin to seal inside of top cowl
- Final fit cowl
- Fill pinholes in cowl and prime
- Topcoat cowl with white EkoPoly
- Install cowl and mask for applying red fineline along fuselage and cowl
- Topcoat spinner backplate with red EkoPoly
- Spray fineline with red EkoPoly
- Apply glass cloth reinforcement to top of leg spats
- Prime leg spats with EkoPrime
- Topcoat leg spats with white EkoPoly
- Drill undercarriage ends to take cotter pins to secure wheel nuts
- Install brakes
- Fabricate brake pipes, fill, bleed, and pressure test brake lines
- Test install wheel spats, fabricate inside support bracket to fit
- Sand and prime wheel spats
- Topcoat wheel Spats with white EkoPoly
- Fabricate engine baffles
- Fabricate engine exhaust system
- Fabricate leg to fuselage intersection fairings
- Fabricate leg to wheel spat intersection fairings
Saturday, 31 March 2012
31st March 2012 - To Do list
Today I spent stripping out various internals ready for spraying. I also set about working out a to do list to complete the fuselage (this will still leave the wings to be skinned) as follows:
