Wrap Up Work

Aug 2006 – Apr 2007 · 44 entries · 253 hours logged

All the little things that need to be done to get this puppy finished. Some call it the last 90%.

2006
August 19 · 8 hours Since I seem to be spending a lot more time darting around different areas of the plane these days, I've decided to make a general category page called Wrap...
August 23 · 2 hours I spent some time last night getting the paperwork together for the airworthiness application. The only thing I need to do now is the weight and balance, but...
August 26 · 8 hours I went to the hangar this afternoon with the intention of staying until after dark, so I could set the landing and taxi lights. I had set the landing light p...
August 27 · 6 hours After working on the wings for most of today, I started to get to grips with tieing up all the wiring behind the panel. There's a lot to do there. I need to...
September 4 · 5 hours I was hoping to get to the hangar both Friday and Monday this weekend, as I was off work both days. On Friday, I had an appointment at the BMW dealership to...
September 10 · 6 hours More wrap up stuff today. I went and forgot my camera though, so no pics today. I'll take some next time and post them. Doh!
September 14 · 2 hours I stopped off at the hangar to paint the parts I'd primed last Saturday. They actually look like they came out nice for a change.
September 17 · 4 hours I didn't spend too much time at the hangar today, mainly because I had surgery on Friday afternoon - a bone graft in my sinuses for a tooth implant. I wasn't...
September 24 · 7 hours More wrapping up. This stuff seems to take up a heck of a lot of time, and it seems like I haven't done much. I also helped Larry roll some aluminium parts o...
October 1 · 7 hours This wrap up stuff goes on forever! Maybe I started it too early! Well, I got a call from Blue Mountain saying our EFIS CPU has had it's preflight calibratio...
October 4 · 1.5 hours I stopped off at the hangar tonight on the way home for the first time in ages. I spoke with Mike yesterday on the phone, and it looks like he may be availab...
October 7 · 10 hours I went to the UPS depot and picked up the EFIS CPU yesterday. It's time to get cracking with everything under the front skin. It can't wait any longer!
October 8 · 11 hours Well, today was they day we started to rivet the forward skin on. There were a few things that needed to be done though before Mike arrived. Clayton came by...
October 9 · 2 hours Mike and I arranged to go to the hangar again this evening to finish up the skin riveting. There sure are some hard to get at rivets. You need to get quite c...
October 11 · 2 hours I managed to get out a little early yesterday and today and stopped by the hangar. Yesterday, I didn't really do plane work, I spent most of my time cleaning...
October 13 · 4 hours I got all my stuff done early today at work, so I managed to leave at 1:30pm. Of course the motive was to get to the hangar and do aeroplane stuff. Much more...
October 14 · 5 hours I wangled my way to getting to the hangar again today, although I'm pretty busy doing home stuff too at the moment. We got a bunch of chores done this mornin...
October 15 · 8 hours Piero called me early this morning, and we both went down to the hangar to start upholstering the glareshield. He found some foam that will be perfect for th...
October 22 · 6 hours Today, we got to finish up the glareshield trim. I'd spoken with Piero the day before and I picked him up at 8:45 this morning. We got to the hangar, warmed...
October 26 · 12 hours I took the day off work today coz it was a bit warmer (50F) so I could heat up the hangar easily to cut the windshield. I need to get this thing ready to put...
October 28 · 4 hours Well, I did get to the hangar one more time in the week, but not really long enough to count for anything, so I'll call it a loss. I was there for two hours,...
October 29 · 7 hours This morning I got to the hangar earlier, because of the clocks going back an hour! I was expecting Keith to come by with his vast Lancair experience to help...
October 30 · 5 hours Today, I was a bit cheeky and took a half day off work to work on the plane. I went to West Marine and picked up some black pigment for the rest of the fibre...
October 31 · 3.5 hours I broke out early again today, although not as early as yesterday. I got to that hangar at about 3pm. Keith was around, so he came by and we attacked the fro...
November 1 · 1 hour I couldn't get out of work today, which was a shame. As a result, I didn't really get to do much at the hangar. I peeled off the peel ply, and it turned out...
November 5 · 9 hours Filling and sanding. Filling and sanding. I'm really getting bored of filling and sanding! On the bright side though, it's starting to look nearly finished....
November 9 · 6 hours Since today was so nice, I took off from work at lunch to work on the plane. I'm also taking tomorrow off. I recently ran the engine, and it was a bit rough...
November 10 · 9 hours I started running through the list of odd jobs that needed doing to get this thing ready to fly. I need to really get this stuff dwindling down to nothing or...
November 11 · 7 hours I started the empennage fairing stuff off today, but didn't get finished really. I was spent way too much time messing about with the bottom parts of the fai...
November 12 · 4 hours I got to the hangar way too late today after going to the auctions again. I got the painting I wanted. It was 4:30pm by the time I got here, and it's a schoo...
November 13 · 2 hours Today I got up late and ended up having to stay longer at work than I wanted. I only got to spend two hours at the hangar, which isn't good. I removed the bl...
November 14 · 4 hours I got in at a reasonable time today, so I could leave a little earlier which helps. I started the evening at the hangar by removing the peel ply from the gea...
November 14 · 2.5 hours I was actually at the hangar for four hours today, but one and a half was spent making some aluminium strips to inlay into our bathroom floor which we've jus...
November 16 · 4.5 hours Clayton came by to help out this evening, which kind of helped push me along some as I was facing some serious motivation problems after looking at the empen...
November 17 · 10 hours A long day at the hangar today! I started the day getting all the seatbelts installed. This meant making six little bushings out of aluminium tubing for the...
November 18 · 6 hours I think I'm in pretty good shape for the inspection. I still have to do the hinge retainers on the cowling, but that shouldn't be too bad.
November 19 · 10 hours I was at the hangar a little longer than anticipated really today, but I made good ground. I wanted to make the cowling hinge pin retaining cover thingies to...
November 20 · 4 hours Sorry about a lack of updates! This past couple of days has been crazy mad! Here we are finally, a bit brief though, I'll elaborate later!
November 21 · 7 hours Today is inspection day! I got up early and got everything together for the hangar. All the paperwork, the computer with the build log on it and something to...
November 23 · 3 hours In anticipation of tomorrow's planned first flight (yeah baby), I went to the hangar with our cousin Jack to get the plane ready for flight. It all needed to...
2007
January 14 · 8 hours Seems like forever since we worked on the plane. I guess it's a long time because since it's been airworthy, I've been flying it whenever I can. Today, the w...
March 31 · 7 hours As well as the GX-60 installation, I decided it was time to get the oil door started. I'm so sick of pulling the top cowling for every preflight now to check...
April 1 · 9 hours On today's agenda are the wheelpants and finishing the oil door installation. First up was to slap on some carbon fibre reinforcement for where the wheelpant...
April 2 · 3.5 hours This evening I continued with the wheelpants. I got the right hand one aligned and cleco'd. Next task was trimming the wheel hole and generally cleaning them...