Dave’s RV-7A Building Log

Reinstalled the right fuel tank on the spar. Drilled the tank to the splice plate and drilled all of the tank to final size.

Put the right leading edge back on the spar and re-assembled the fuel tank.

Installed the nutplates on the Z brackets for the right fuel tank and installed the brackets onto the spar. Installed the fuel tank on the spar and drilled the baffle to the Z brackets following the method outlined on Dan C’s site.

Primed right fuel tank Z brackets. The whole session was 2 hours, but most of the time was spent on the aileron stiffeners.

Primed aileron stiffeners. It was threatening to rain all day and of course started right as I was finishing the priming session. I ran everything inside. I’ll touch up a few parts, but almost all of them turned out fine.

I spent most of the day installing a fan for the garage attic. Since installing the insulation in the garage ceiling for warmth last winter, it’s also kept the garage much cooler on hot days. The problem is that we store stuff in the garage attic, and it now gets well over 100 up there. Thus, I’m putting in a fan that will turn on when the temp gets too hot and kick the hot air right out the side of the house.

Started working on the right fuel tank. I clecoed the fuel tank ribs into the skin (with some help from Julie) and drilled and countersunk the Z-brackets for the plate nut attach rivets.

Deburred the rest of the holes in the aileron skins for the stiffeners. I mainly did this just to clear the ailerons off the bench. I’ll continue working on them later.

Drilled the rest of the right leading edge.

Adele also helped out deburring some of the right wing ribs. She seemed to really enjoy deburring, probably just because she was avoiding going to bed.

Removed the right bottom skins, clecoed on the leading edge, installed the funky inboard leading edge rib and splice plate, and drilled (almost) everything to final size. I’m barely spending any time on this wing, but it is really flying (excuse the pun).

Drilled the bottom skins on the right wing.