Feeling cold in the shop today
Bottom finished, ready to flip
Riveting
Back to it after way too long. Just riveting and engine mount prep tonight
Main spar drilled and all ribs expanded
Almost ready for disassembly to debur so I can rivet.
Wing Strut Fitting and Baggage floor
Worked on the bracket for the wing strut. It needs to be riveted before the other peices or you can’t get to the rivet heads to pull them.
An old TODO item is the stiffeners on the baggage floor. So I made those, drilled and riveted them.
Bottom skin expand holes
Until I ran out of black clecos this time. They arrive Tuesday…
Nose skins and button up skeleton
Got the nose skins all set up. Need more 3/32 clecos
Chipping Away
Weeknights are a little at a time. Did the Wingtip L angles and drilled out the large A6 rivet holes that attach it.
Now to disassemble, apply cortec and rivet.
Bottom skin L angles
Flipped the wing back over to measure and cut the L angles that go in between the ribs on the bottom skin.
Not thrilled about the holes lining up in this skin. Going to try starting from this side and seeing how it works out.
Don’t want to forget these before I button this up:
Skin work
Lots of skin work going on right now.
StratuxHUD Build
I bought a Hudly Wireless a few months ago and have been writing a display for it with a Raspberry Pi.
Last week I stumbled on John Marzulli’s presentation at Airventure on his build. Somehow I missed it when there this year, but luckily someone recorded it.
So I grabbed a PI off the shelf (I have 10 or so of them) and gave it a whirl.
The install was simple enough if you’re familiar with Linux.
It’s quite difficult to photograph a HUD, so I hooked it up to the TV in my office so you can see the interface more clearly.
Find the project here:
https://github.com/JohnMarzulli/StratuxHud
I forked the project and will be making a few modifications as I think of them. I’ll make those changes available to the main project if they’re interested in them.
My forked repo is here: