Submitted by Salisburybs on Thu, 07/19/2012 - 15:54
They call me Papakeith, PK, or just Papa. My real name is Keith Salisbury, and I'm your average guy. Well, maybe slightly larger than average. It seems that I have always been drawn to things that the mainstream of society deems "odd". Dirt bikes, Firearms, and other hobbies like that. Even so, I certainly never thought I'd end up starting a construction project like this one.
Submitted by Papakeith on Mon, 12/31/2012 - 08:01
This has been the most productive month I've had on this project in the last few years. Bryan and I spent yesterday cleaning and priming more of the attach angles. The pile is getting smaller. That's the goal isn't it keep making the pile smaller until eventually you have a plane?
Submitted by Papakeith on Mon, 12/24/2012 - 13:57
Bryan and I spent a good chunk of time of Sunday peeling the plastic off of attachment angles for the ribs. Then we set about deburring all of them. I didn't count, but suffice it to say there were quite a few. All of the attach angles for the nose, center, back, aileron, and flap ribs got deburred.Next up was a bit of priming. We only had time and room for a small run so we took all of the aileron attach angles and cleaned, etched and primed. We called it a day after that.3 hours closer to having an airplane.
Submitted by Papakeith on Mon, 12/10/2012 - 23:34
I set the rivets on the 4 remaining center ribs on Sunday. . . done
then I set about seeing what else I had to do to finish up the last of the ribs so that I can finally, really, start in on the spar.
I found one nose rib that never got the stiffener riveted on it.
one stiffener angle for said nose rib that needs to get a coat of primer sprayed on it.
All of the aileron nose ribs need primer
All or darn close to all of the rib attach angles need primer (I may just lump that in with the spar stuff :) )
Submitted by Papakeith on Sun, 12/02/2012 - 23:44
drilled the remaining center ribs today. Then I set about cleaning and deburring them.
I was planning on riveting today, but I didn't have the right length rivet. Yeah I could have cut the right size, but It was Supper time by the time I got to that point anyway. the rivets are ordered, so I'll be ready the next time I'm out there.
Submitted by Papakeith on Wed, 11/28/2012 - 07:52
drilled and clecoed the double center ribs last night. After asking the Bearhawk group for guidance I only added a single stiffener on the inboard side of the doubled up rib.
Submitted by Papakeith on Mon, 11/26/2012 - 10:01
Justin, Bryan, and I spent yesterday afternoon riveting the stiffener angles on the center ribs. 4-500 rivets in total
A huge Thank you goes out to Justin for providing guidance on the day. You saved us a whole lot of head scratching.
Keith
Submitted by Papakeith on Tue, 11/20/2012 - 15:26
Bryan and I met one or two more times before pumpkin season mucked up our schedules to the point that it wasn't possible to get together for the bulk of September and October.
But,
We did get together this weekend for an hour or two and worked at deburring the center ribs.
We finished that up (for the most part).
Submitted by Papakeith on Mon, 07/30/2012 - 20:59
Bryan, my nephew, is the one to thank for getting me back at the work table. He and I did some rearranging of the workshop, and I rewired the space. It seems I really did need more than just one outlet. We are starting just about where I left off. We are adding the stiffener angles to the center ribs.
