This week I received some parts that I ordered last week, including:
- a replacement trailing edge
- some rivets for the service bulletin I needed to fix, which I promptly lost
- and parts for a service bulletin that I didn’t order last time
So this week I started off by taking the aileron off the left wing and relocating the clip that I had talked about last week. After that I started drilling out the rivets to put in the correct rivets for the service bulletin for the aileron hinge. This is where I promptly discovered that I had lost the rivets that I had just received. I ended up ordering some new ones from Aircraft Spruce and I also ordered some wire at the same time. While I was waiting I ended up putting all the exposed wiring into some wire loom so that I didn’t have to worry about it rubbing on things and getting torn open and causing a potential short
So the next day the wire came in with the rivets that I needed so I ended up replacing the landing light wire that I had originally run. It was number 18. I replaced it with number 14.For some reason I started to really read into what I had chosen and I don’t know why. I went with number 18. Everything for these particular lights said to use number 14 that I could find, mainly because they are HID lights and they’re not LED. I might end up changing these out for some LED ones if I could find a ductworks compatible lamp but that’s to be seen in the future. I just put connectors on them and I believe I called it a night for that day.
So I also worked on 3D scanning the NACA ducts that came with the kit so that I can put them in the rear tail cone of the airplane when I’m ready for doing that. I also came up with some AI-generated paint skis and I’m going back and forth between, I believe, the first one and the third one but I’m open to suggestions.
