Tire on rim
Today I mounted the tires on the rims. This was one of the sometimes occuring tasks that take much longer than expected. The Dico tire of my kit did …
Right Gear
With the experience from the left side, the right gear was a straightforward task. Drilling the axle with the stainless steel drills was easy this time.
Safety Cable
This shows the safety cable for the landing gear, put inside the tubes. The first time I made a nicopress connection. It worked ok with the cheap swaging tool …
Drilling Gauge
This simple (self made) gauge helps when drilling on the fuselage. It keeps the drill in the right direction, 90 degrees to the surface.
Tailwheel done
All parts for the tailwheel installation are done. One final thing is to tighten all bolts. The bolts where missing. I need to order the bolts and have to …
Tailwheel Delrin Spacer
This is a spacer (from Delrin) to fix the tailwheel spring. Since I added a doubler (FUS-30) at the tailwheel position, the AN6 bolt is short and a …
Swivel Tail wheel
The tail wheel delivered with my kit is permanently connected, there is no handle to disconnect it from rudder during moving the fuselage. To overcome this I plan to …
Tail wheel Fibreglass spring
My kit 433R is equipped with a fibreglass spring. Some of the builders love this, some do not recommend it. I decided to give it a try and installed …
Gear Installation
First part of landing gear installed. Thats all I can do for now. I have to wait for some parts to be delivered from Aircraft Spruce. It’s hard to …
Hanging Free
To prepare installing the landing gear, I removed the construction table and fixed the fuselage on the ceiling of the garage. Looks cool. Probably the first “flying feeling” for …
Hard Stuff
This was hard work: Drilling two holes in the axle (in the alu block) needed approximately 10 drills. Being used to aluminum this is a different experience. In the …
Most important tools
This picture shows the most important tools at all. – A super fine pencil to mark the parts before drilling or cutting. I probably used 10 of …
Grinding Wheel
This grinding wheel from 3M is cool for aluminum. It’s not cheap, but will probably last for the whole plane. I wouldn’t know what to do without it.
Electronic Level
This electronic level is also a tool, I can recommend. The digital display is easy to read. A small loudspeaker makes aligning parts an easy one man task, …
Rivet Tool
This is the rivet tool I used. Again no need for a compressor. Just put it on the electrical drill and easily pull the rivets. Good tool made by …
Best drilling tool
This is a great machine. No need to use any loud compressor. This is all you need. It helped us to drill all of the approx. 20.000 holes into …
Winter break
The winter is getting pretty cold at this weekend. Unfortunately this forces us to a break. Temperatures below -10 ° Celsius make it nearly impossible to work in …
Upper seatbelt attach bracket
One of the latest step in the fuselage building process are the seatbelt attach brackets. A 3 point seatbelt will be fastened here.
Fuselage at the finishing line
This will be the last step at the fuselage for some time. The bottom remains clecoed, so that landing gear can be installed. Landing gear and controls will come …
Detail of seat rails
This detail show one seat rail as well as the locking mechanism for the seats.
Fuselage gusset
Gussets to support the connection from the cabin to the tailcone. Nice parts, fabricated by my own from 0.032.
Installing windows
For a better visibility we decided to install all windows. The doubler is self made from 0.040. The Lexan windows are sealed with “Würth Scheibendicht abtupfbar”. Sealing works great …