Got the fuse mounted on the rotisserie today. This will definitely help to make it easier to work on.
Did more work on the floor boards today, including working on the flap actuator and F-445 Flap Bearing Block. I had an issue with F-445 fitting, and it turns out on the Quick Build that the factory did not put adequate clearance on the F-8578-1 Seat Belt Bracket. I removed the brackets and radiused both of them per the plans. There were no issues after that.
Finally got a chance to work on the Fuselage again. Began refitting the floor boards, drilling the holes in F-837-1 and prepping to add a few nut plates.
Started riveting the rear seat. Had a few problems with the rivets around the top curve, but ended up getting them bucked OK. Just need to finish riveting the hinge on the bottom and it’s done.
Had a stopping point on the elevators so we decided to rivet the front seat together.
Primered the rear half of the fuse, along with the areas that will be under the floor boards. The fuse can now be moved to hangar and continue to be worked on. Once we get the rest of the components in and set, we’ll remove them, prime the rest and paint the interior.
Just as a side note… we shot the SEM primer with a Harbor Freight HVLP gun. The gun shot fine, but after about 10 minutes the top can started leaking. I loaded the threads up with teflon tape and that solved the issue.
Got all the floor pieces fitted and match drilled. Now I can finish prepping the rear portion of the fuse for primer and finally get it moved to the hangar.
Primered the seats this evening (I miss the late summer light).
Also deburred and worked on some of the various cockpit panels/parts.
The fuselage got a good scrub down in preparation to get the inside primed. The plan is to prime all the parts from the cockpit aft that will be getting interior paint shot over it. We’ll then work on the cockpit areas at the hangar, prime those and then do JetFlex on the interior.
Spent some time getting the front seat going. Deburred all the parts, cut the holes for the seatbelts, got the seat hinge in place and all parts match drilled.
Spent a little time this evening on the rear seat. Got the hinge put in place with the alignment hole according to the plans, clamped it and then drilled it in place.
All of the final holes drilled on the bottom hinge:
