Parts and Pieces

I've finished all the angle and channel parts and rearranged my work space to accommodate the completed parts on the shelves above my work bench. I've decided to work on the main skins at the time of assembly to keep me from moving these big pieces in and out of storage.





I'm now tackling the arduous task of deburring the wing ribs.  There is ONLY 52 of them!  Twenty six nose ribs and 26 aft ribs.  Each one isn't all that bad, but 52 of them is not fun. 

The welded parts come completed with the kit. So after this big, monotonous step I have the turtle deck formers (ribs for the round upper part of the rear fuselage) and the firewall/stainless steel parts to debur.  Also, on my breaks at work, I'll be drawing the flat sheet parts to be cut out of scrap channel and supplied sheet. After all that, I think, I repeat, I think I'll be done with the individual parts and ready to move on to assembly.  Oh yeah, I need to build a work table prior to that.  Maybe someday I'll be about to see some resemblance of an airplane.

Parts and Pieces

Still working on the channel parts.  I've finished most if not all of the cutting.  All I have left is a few parts to deburr and a few flanges to bend and I'll be ready to move on.  Here is a shot of the flange bending process.

I'm using an excel part list off the yahoo group SonexTalk to keep track of which parts I've completed.  Today I completed the 367th part which puts me passed the 50% mark.  Now this doesn't mean I'm halfway through the build, just that I've completed half of the individual parts.  Here's a shot of a batch of channel parts waiting to be marked complete.