Kit #7 arrived

[Utah-Jay]

I often joke with my wife when I walk in the door at the end of a long day working on the plane… Some days you are the bug, and some days you are the windshield…. Well yesterday I was mostly the freaking BUG with a few small wins.

Why? Because after getting the landing and wigwag lights done I started on the 3 in 1 wingtip lights, did the left one first and all was good. The right one at first did not work at all, so I redid all the connections at my ACM (Dynon). I had extra wire (shielded 4 wire in 20 gauge), so I cut it and redid all the connections using a ground soldered to the wire shield. Boom, I instantly had my strobe lights, but still no (green) NAV light. Got frustrated…. Sat down and had two cookies and then went back at it but still no joy… my buddy looked at it, we checked to make sure all the pins were fully seated, then checked the voltage and compared it to the left wing. Everything matched, but no NAV. My buddy is a wiring genius and will look at it next week when he gets back in town. In the meantime I did the connections (Deutsch plugs) for the two camera power boxes for the wing strut cameras and both are good to go.

Today I drilled the holes for the aileron cables to feed down the strut. That went pretty well, as you can see in the photo I put a rubber grommet on for the time being. Amazon had perfect timing as they delivered my rub block material for the inside of the strut for the cable to rest/rub on. I will cut and fit those tomorrow IF I have time after doing a final sanding on my wingtips.
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I leave Monday for 5 weeks of work… I am nearly positive the windshield will not fit itself while I am gone. The windshield pretty much scares the crap outta me

IMG_5999.jpg Truth be told, when I snug it up against the side attach points it is about perfect along the bottom edge.

[Utah-Jay]

Set the windshield on the cowling and in the upper channel, fitting will possibly start tomorrow afternoon.
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Landing and wigwag lights are working, gonna get the 3 in 1 wingtip lights wired tomorrow

[Utah-Jay]

Nev

My prop is 82”, is a Sensenich ground adjustable STOL prop. The cord on the prop is amazing.

[Nev]

Jay, what length is your prop ? (Apologies for the personal question )

[Utah-Jay]

The struts turned BLACK!!! And they are on permanently
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I pulled the wires a few days ago and hooked up the magnetometer, tomorrow I am going to hookup and test the landing/wigwag lights

Oil goes in the engine tomorrow too…. Just because I can

[Utah-Jay]

Well… When I removed the supports the the wings did not fall off nor did the plane tip over. I reckon that is a win!
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Struts need to come off for paint but it is a nice milestone

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[Utah-Jay]

Starting to look like an airplane! Wings are drilled which was a huge hurdle

Struts are just duct taped to the upper strut attach point, they will get measured, cut and drilled tomorrow

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[Nev]

Looking good !

[Utah-Jay]

And then there were TWO
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[Utah-Jay]

One wing on

VG’s installed on the left wing

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[rkennell]

Jay it has been very instructive and a lot of fun reading your post about your build. I will be pleased if mine looks half as nice as yours when it gets completed. Thanks for all the time you have taken to share.

[Utah-Jay]

VG’s are on the right wing, it will get bolted on tomorrow and the VG’s will be put on the left wing and the left wing hung Friday
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[Utah-Jay]

Both wings are polished
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[rkennell]

They look very nice and like a lot of elbow grease went to making them look like that.

[Utah-Jay]

IMG_5886.jpg IMG_5885.jpg IMG_5887.jpg oThe prep before the polish, 4 1/2 hours prep