Recent content by BTAZ

If for no other reason, easier to store(I hung mine against a wall) while building the fuselage. Philosophically, if you complete the wings you have passed the "Do I have the tenacity and commitment to do this?" test.

Perhaps the quick build is different but I did the following on my scratch built. I positioned the frame and cover where I wanted it on the wing. Note the cover and frame were only drilled to 3/32(I.E. don't drill out the holes that will ultimately have screws to their final size, leave them at...

Much darker than it needs to be. It should be light and "Iridescent gold" (I.E. color changing with rainbow hues). Even the smallest hint of gold is enough. Note what I have shown below is still darker than it needs to be. Just a "hint" is sufficient to show the conversion has taken place...

No but it added a weeks worth of "thinking". Basically ended up with an aluminum tube(5/8" OD IIRC) that ran under the door sill as a "push/pull" tube. I made an aluminum insert for the rear of the tube to install a knob for the rear seat throttle. I made a bracket that clamps on to the tube and...

I think the "Forking over the leading edge" is an optical illusion. I think Dave closely replicated my solution but rather than forging the upper adjuster from a single piece he welded two pieces together .

For clarification/summary as I'm getting confused, production round tail wires use a rolled thread and are not reduced in OD. So a typical 3/16" wire will have about 3" or so of thread on either end and the un-threaded portion will remain 3/16" A cut thread will leave a stress riser at the end...

I mentioned this as an afterthought in a different post and it seemed to generate positive interest, so, for peer review..... There were places where I foresaw difficulty installing the supplied circlip on the fairlead as the area was limited to "one hand access". In those areas, I used a snap...

I first made a mockup firewall of aluminum and fully hooked up all the firewall forward "stuff" including everything mounting to(and passing through) the firewall. I definitely ended up moving things around so ended up with extra holes and also some re-positioned tabs For example, the first...

Took my son up today as the first passenger. He was the lucky recipient of "Bucking bar duties" as well as helping me with a lot of other things during the build. The first picture is holding short of the runway for the CAF B-17. The others highlight how nice having the doors on both sides of...

Started flying my LSA using an ancient ICOM A2 radio. Worked great for about ten hours but then intermittently became "carrier, no voice". Given I fly out of a Class D airport, I decided it was time to upgrade. Spent considerable time researching options and settled on the Yaesu 450L as opposed...

FYI, now that I have about 10 hours logged in my plans built LSA, I chased down insurance. For $50K hull and the "typical" $1M/$100K liability, quotes ran from around $1300 to over $2700 with a couple in the $1700 range for this 800TT/700TW SEL Private pilot flying under LSA rules. The $50K...

Dead calm winds so decided it was a good day to go. No photography or "arranged witnesses" as I didn't want any pressure to go. Flying out of a Class D, told them I wanted to orbit as a "maintenance flight" and flew several racetracks 500' above pattern altitude. A bit of slow flight and some...

Struck upon an accurate and easy way to see where the timing marks are relative to the crankcase split on small Continental engines if you have the nose bowl off. Set up a small laser level with the "line" lens on it in a vise on the floor and line it up along the case split so it also shines...

Just finished the cables for my Ailerons and was wondering whether anyone has installed some sort of Aileron control stops on the torque tube.

I have as much done on the fuselage as I can do without the wings on it so it went to the airport yesterday. Odd feeling to walk out to an empty garage this AM... Punch list is getting shorter......