Today was another quick trip to the shop where Martha and I worked on getting everything a bit more organized and put away. We raised the tail fuselage rotator a bit more to get the plane closer to...

We ran out of time to get too much work done tonight but Craig did stop by to help Martha and I put the fuselage on the rotators. Per his suggestion we put the fuselage on a set of sawhorses to get...

I’m overdue for a build log entry/update so here’s what’s been going on the past couple weeks. Compression Tubes Most of my time has been spent in increments of 15-30 minutes looking at the rivet...

I emailed CubCrafters yesterday and received a response from Mark addressing my questions. Today I mostly did some followup work based on those answers. Drilling Out Tube Rivets This is where I s...

Rear Lift Strut Fittings A lot happened today. I received the correct AN6-20A bolts from CubCrafters at the end of last week so I started today by installing one in the necessary spot in the rear ...

Since I am still waiting on getting the correct AN6-20A bolt for the rear lift strut fitting I decided to do some more workshop setup today. I started by un-clamping and double checking the glued ...

Front Lift Strut Fitting Today I began by installing the rear lift strut fitting. This was the final piece to do for section 4 of the manual1. I followed the exact same process as I did for the fr...

Hinge Blocks I started this work session by installing the hinge blocks on the rear spar. The manual1 instructed that you use the same process as you did for the front spar so I reamed the first a...

Reaming Followup Update on the hinge block reaming from the previous entry: after much back and forth with CubCrafters and other builders it was determined that the reaming of the 5/16” holes was ...

Today I worked on reaming the spar hinge blocks. I did this per the manual’s instructions1 and clamped the hinge blocks between a couple pieces of scrap wood on the workbench so that I could focus ...