Some progress from the past few days.
How many hours????? The tail feathers have taken well into two hundred hours
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This is what I do after 9 hours and 45 minutes of doing tapes on ONE horizontal and the rudder. I decided to stop for the day, but have about another hour on the rudder, both straight tapes so super easy and they can wait for tomorrow
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Before shrink and post shrink CB34C7AB-90D3-4A97-B4AA-A5A4B00AA64D.jpgF019C4FC-2BEF-4508-9107-F4849D38C41D.jpg
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2 trim tabs
2 elevators
2 horizontal stabs
The oratex is looking better than I had expected
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Addressing the Rans question would be great for a Beartracks article! -
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I spent 24 hours and 38 minuted over two days learning to cover with Oratex from a “professional” fabric coverer. It was the best money I have spent so far on the build. There is absolutely zero chance I could have gotten the results I am getting without the help from Monika. She does the covering for RMK (Rocky Mountain Kitplanes), who are a Rans dealer. I will say that I can get impatient, I like to get stuff done, and I would have never dreamed of going so slow while covering. Based on what she told me, the only really challenge covering the fuselage is the curve of the empennage up the vertical stabilizer.
Bottom line it takes me about 10-12 hours of actual work to cover one piece of a tail feather. I have two to go, the right horizontal stabilizer is next, I hope to get it finished prior to leaving Monday for a 6 week work trip. That only leaves the rudder, gear legs and fuselage.
I will address the Companion vs. Rans in a different thread as it may create a thread string.Leave a comment:
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I suppose practice makes perfect. Really, it doesn’t appear that you had to practice a lot to get your nice results. Perhaps the empennage is the most difficult part to cover, too.
Have you discussed anywhere your decision to build a Companion to replace a Rans S21 (if I have that supposition correct)? The Rans appears to be close to the Companion in performance and payload—lesser, but close.Leave a comment:
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Covering is… Well I am making progress, here is the bottom of a Horizontal stab from this afternoon, top gets done tomorrow.
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The man cave is all set up to finish up covering the tailfeathers 3F9DCE78-255C-46C2-A68F-7EBE51BA0097.jpgLeave a comment:
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After my original diabolical with covering, I got a two day lesson on covering with Oratex. I finished up at home today after 27.5 hours the past two days. I learned when you think you are going slow, like REALLY SLOW….. you are still going too fast. The edges required attaching about 1 inch at a time. I was pretty frightened about rib stitching, but it was not that bad. Everything came out really well.
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Hmm, when you are not happen with how the fabric when on, removing fabric and cleaning off the glue is NOT fun. Fabric removal took a few hours, glue removal will take me a few days. 6E4479F9-12C2-4FE0-A072-8BB8446741CB.jpg
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A couple of buddies, one in the blue is rebuilding a Husky, the one in the black is building a Kitfox, they felt the need to check out my Sport Aircraft Seats. Great local community here in Heber
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Finished the wing root panels… Well I still need to do the sight gauges and headset jacks, but they are fitted and fit with ZERO pillowing EB7E869B-2909-4590-BF06-82B315EFB0EE.jpg3EF31EBD-7753-48E8-9EF4-B35286699B72.jpg80C67F51-C662-48E0-ABD7-5E29B8E62102.jpgB6EFA40D-710E-4E05-90BF-72EFB91CC150.jpg7A5E9EB6-196A-4AC9-BEA9-D35369504B29.jpg I also drilled the holes for the clamps to secure my brakes lines on the gear legs DD1D67A8-2F84-4EA0-BCCC-5AB0E8FEDEAC.jpgLeave a comment:
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