Monday, November 16, 2015

8 NOV 15: Page 35-3 1(left), redo page 34-4 5-9, page 34-5 5-7, page 34-6 1-3: 8.5 hours
Finished riveting right passenger seat floor in place.  Redid the baggage door frame.  Lock assembly installed:
Match-drilled the holes of the F-1058 hinge frame into the F-1060 hinge.  Spacing looks pretty good:
I wanted to get the hinge as flush as possible to the fuselage skin.  Looks pretty good:

9 NOV 15: Page 34-6 steps 5-7, 35-2 5 (left), 35-3 1-2, 35-4 2: 10.5 hours
Attached baggage door assembly and striker plate.  Riveted left passenger floor and seat pan in place – no pics.

12 NOV 15: Page 33-10 steps 1-3: 3 hours
Match drilled, dimpled, and installed nutplates to the F-1006A/B/C bulkheads – no pics.

13 NOV 15 Page 33-10 steps 5-9, paint prep: 3 hours
Match-drilled #30 the holes of the F-6114B/C wear blocks into the F-1006F/E baggage bulkheads:
Prepped parts for paint.  These are interior pieces that have already been primed.  I scuffed the primer coat in preparation to paint them with the interior urethane paint:

14 NOV 15: Installed parking brake mount, paint: 4.75 hours
I initially decided not to install the Matco parking break because I had heard about problems with the module leaking.  I heard they changed the module, so I decided to bite the bullet and install it.  Even though there have been very few times over the past several hundred hours in my 7A that I had the need for a parking brake, when you need one and don’t have one, well…  Mount installed to the firewall:
Interior covers painted with the medium-stone urethane to match the interior color.  This is about it for priming/painting of airframe parts:

15 NOV 15: Wiring, page 34-7 steps 4-5, page 35-3 step 4: 5.25 hours
My friend Mike (Gulfstream A&P/-14 builder) came over and gave me a crash course in wiring techniques.  May seem dumb for such a simple task, but from someone who has NO experience doing any electrical wiring outside of some shoddy crimp/soldering work around the garage, it was a huge sense of accomplishment splicing these light wires and soldering the switch connections for the baggage lights.  Aft end:
Finished product installed:
Finished the evening by installing the F-1081 left baggage cover:

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