Shop March 10th

March 10th

Shop

I spent several hours today working on the shop. I wanted to get the shelve up and installed and remove all the cardboard boxes I had been using to protect the floor in the painting area and lay down some protective paper. The cardboard had to many cracks and opening so it was impossible to clean the dust out of that area.

Installed the second header board. This one I bought a 2X6 and 3" anchor bolts, it feels a lot more solid than the doubled up 2X4s.

Finished the shelf and loaded all the finished pieces as well as the longer fuselage parts. Making all the cuts with a battery powered circular saw is less than ideal. If I keep doing wood working Im going to need to buy a table say and a miter saw. Im thinking about trying to build some furniture pieces for me apartment so who knows...

Have the floor cleaned up and the paper down in the paint booth area.

 Decided to move the back shelving unit to the other was to clean up the space.

Shop 3.0 Hours

Horizontal Stabilizer and Shop March 8

March 8

Horizontal Stabilizer

Got back to the shop today, spent most of the time deburring the rest of the HS ribs.

The Emery Cloth does a really nice job of getting into the tighter parts on the ribs are deburring. I am starting with the dremel green Scoth-Brite pads, then going over it with the 320 grit and finally the 600. I was just the 400 and calling it good, but I got worried it was to course. So a little extra time, but it makes me feel better. Then i do all the edges with the Scoth-Brite wheel that it can reach, that thing deburs in no time, so much easier!

Finally finished all the deburring!

Next the plans have you bend angles onto 4 or the pieces, this was easy enough just used the edge seamer and bent slightly. 

Now I have to make cradles to build the HS structure in. The plans say to use the shipping container wood, which is nice because I need to cut that up and clear out the space its taking up in the shop anyway.

Final HS jigs.

Shop

Next I decided t cut up the rest of the shipping crate to get it out of my space.

I repurposed the 2x4 legs to use as header boards for the raised storage shelf I said I wanted to put in.

Stopped by home depot on the way home and picked up the rest of the wood that I think I need to build my shelf. Ive never done this before, and I intend to put the finished pieces up there so the are stores safe until I need them in final assembly so I really hope google didn't lie to me about how to install header boards!

Horizontal Stabilizer 3.0 Hours, Shop 2.5 Hours