I started out tonight by finishing the work on the controls. After a little fiddling with both sides, I got everything working nicely with virtually no play. I disassembled everything so that I can get the control mounts prepped and primed.
The plans say you can optionally remove the outlined material from the control mounts to save weight. I’m trying to save weight where I can, so I’m doing most if not all of these optional steps. I started by drilling some #30 holes to define the radius of the interior angles.
I cut out the bulk of the material using the band saw. After this picture was taken, I smoothed out the cuts with a vixen file and the scotchbrite wheel so that these are ready for priming.
The center section has 18 K1000-08 nutplates that need to be installed on the top flanges.
I also deburred the edges of the center cover supports and match drilled these to the spar. Nutplates are installed on the front flange and holes are drilled through the webs for snap bushings, but these can wait until tomorrow.
