Month: July 2014

Good progress!  The elevators are going to come together any day now.  Just so happens that day will be after Oshkosh…

Things were going swimmingly with 4 of us working at once.  We set up a wonderful assembly line to back rivet the elevator rib halves.  So wonderful that we managed to neglect the fact that the top/bottoms are swapped left/right.

So, the day ended with the humiliating drilling of 64 rivets.  I think we’re pretty good at drilling out rivets, now.

Berck: 8 hours, Randy: 8 hours, Tracey: 7 hours, Jonah: 4 hours.

Everything for the elevators is deburred and dimpled.  That took most of the day, but left an hour of celebratory riveting for Jonah and me.

 

Berck: 8 hours, Randy: 7 hours, Jonah: 6 hours.