John's RV-9A Builder Log

Received another 200 silver clecos and 100 copeer ones, plus a file and some riveting tape.

Oh yeah, and a CP-214 pneumatic squeezer! Have to figure out how to adjust the settings before I can use it, though.

Finally went back and match-drilled and clecoed the two mounting brackets on the forward spar. It took long enough, [...]

Another 3 hours passed…I added a drill press to the tool collection for $51, which has been pressed (pun intended) into service as my scotch-brite automaton.

The second hstab has been clecoed and half match-drilled. I should finish it tomorrow. On Thursday, I expect a pneumatic squeezer to show up at my door (ebay) along with [...]

More clecos arrived today, and JMR and I spent the lunch hour clecoing and match drilling the rest of the left side of the horizontal spar.

When all was said and done, the left side drilling is done! What remains is deburring, dimpling, priming and riveting.

Hopefully, the weekend will see the completion of the Horizontal Stab [...]

Construction started in earnest today. Spars were reamed and deburred, parts were fabricated, brackets were hung..

Well, actually *some* parts were fabricated. Specifically, shims.

The other brackets that I was supposed to fabricate, I screwed up. Made them 1/16″ too small, which is a no-no when tolerances are measured in 32nds of an inch. So, Monday I’ll [...]