Tonight I decided to install the nav lights onto the wing tips.
holes drilled Nav light installed
Tonight I finished installing the nutplates on the wingtips. I also final drilled and dimpled the outboard edge of the wing skins. All that’s left now is to do the nav light installation in each tip.
drilling the right wing tip to the outboard edge of the wing drilled and countersunk the nutplate hole pattern onto the wingtips Riveted the nutplates to the wingtip
Today I did a bit of work on the wingtips. I got the nav light lenses drilled and nutplates installed. I also drilled the left wingtip to the wing. I still need to install the nutplates on the left wingtip and do the same on the right wingtip.
Today I began working on the wing tips. I did all the trimming today. Including trimming the fiberglass wingtips to fit and trimming the wingtip lenses to fit.
Trimming the inboard edges of the wingtips. Next up was trimming the lenses. First I had to cut them into two pieces. One for the left and the other for the right tip Lenses cut and half next they had to be trimmed and sanding over several iterations to get them to fit nice Here are the lenses all trimmed.
Tonight I finished installing the heated pitot systems. I mounted the pitot heat regulator to the middle access cover of the left wing. I decided to use Molex connectors on everything so future maintenance will be easier. I also test fit the pitot tube now that the push/pull tube is installed. There was some interference with the pitot lines and the torque tube coming out of the heated pitot tube. I had to shorten the lines coming out of the tube even more.
Tonight I finished installing the aileron trim. Turned out i didn’t need to move any holes. The problem was being caused by the springs rubbing against the push/pull rod. I ended up have to bend servo tab arm up about 35 degrees in order to raise the springs up away from the tube. I also had to adjust the orientation of the springs. Now all is good.
Servo tab bent up servo and springs installed
Tonight I installed the autopilot roll servo
The servo First I had to fabricate the pushrod that connects the servo to the aileron bellcrank
Tapping the tubing the tube tapped on both sides and cut to size The final product. The push rod Then it was time to install the servo in the wing
Today I began work on the aileron trim. I got all the parts cut out, deburred and riveted. Unfortunately the when the trim servo is mounted in the neutral position the ailerons do go straight. I’m going to have to move the tabs over inboard slightly and that should fix the issue. Should be a quick fix tomorrow.
Trim servo bracket Trim servo motor The bracket, with motor mounted underneath secured to the inspection cover Tabs riveted to the push tube.
Today I finished mounting the ailerons and the pushrods. Tomorrow it’s on to installing the electric aileron trim
I started the day off cutting the torque tube collars to size
Then I match drilled the collars to the torque tube brackets
For the next drilling operation I had to create a spacer block with an exact dimension. So I decided to mill it on the milling machine
Hit by dimension (1 1/64") right on to within .0005"
Then I had to drill the torque collars to the other torque tube sub-assembly.