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Finish Kit Crate Disassembly

I disassembled the crate that the finish kit was delivered in today as well as the crate I had from when the replacement horizontal stabilizer was delivered. This was pretty similar to disassemblin...

Finish Kit Inventory

Today I finished taking inventory of the parts shipped in the finish kit and marking them as received on the packing list. I also recorded the box or tote where each item can be found on the packin...

Finish Kit Delivery

I just got back from my trip to Oshkosh (followed by a vacation) which was awesome, as always! I talked to a lot of vendors while I was there about things for the plane and got a demo flight in a C...

Deburring Center Rib Hole

Today I worked on deburring the problem hole on rib #3 so that I could get the last rivet installed for that rib. I purchased a small hole deburring scraper and a back edge deburring scraper blade ...

Reinstalling Center Rib Rivets

Craig came by today to help me reinstall the center rib rivets that I mentioned in the last build entry that I needed help with. We started by installing the rivets in rib #12 which went smoothly. ...

Removing Center Rib Rivets

I finally had some time to work on the plane again and started by removing the rivets I installed last time that didn’t pull correctly. The first two that I removed were those on ribs that only had...

Riveting Center Ribs

I talked to Mark at CubCrafters and got some tips for deburring the match-drilled rib holes and installing the rivets straight. He advised that I use a doubled up Scotchbrite pad to debur the back ...

Match Drilling Center Ribs

Today I continued working on section 8 of the manual1, installing the center ribs. I started by confirming that everything was installed in the correct place and that I wasn’t missing any steps her...

Placing Center Ribs

Riveting Blocks and Fittings I finally got to work on the plane again! It’s been a little while for a couple reasons. The first is that I’ve just been busy with other things going on in my life an...

Riveting Blocks and Fittings

Compression Tube Rivets To start, I heard back from Steve Michael, a previous CarbonCub builder who helps CubCrafters with build support, and he said that the rivets for the compression tubes look...