Stjohn's RV-7

1 hour
This morning, I countersunk the F-631A channels. No pics, since this isn’t a very interesting thing, but the process was pretty cool. I set everything up assembly-line style, by putting the countersink cage in the floor-standing drill press and building a fence with a pilot hole out of wood. I gave each hole a swipe with the Boelube stick and was able to knock out all 4 channels. Now I get to deburr the insides of the channels, prime them, and rivet them together. Then I have to figure out the whole attachment to the fuselage. That, friends and neighbors, is going to be interesting.
At some point, I WILL be able to paint the interior, but it looks like Terminator 4 is about to start stealing my weekends from me, so I might slow down on the plane for a bit, but not before I get the roll bar done.

1.5 hours
Not much cabin frame work. Mostly what I did was make the guest house bedroom ready for the influx of finish kit parts. Mike from Partain Transport dropped off the finish kit crate and we got it into the driveway, after a little game of aircraft Tetris in the trailer. My kit was buried under 3 RV-12 subkits and a partially completed RV8 which was on its way to Colorado along with a Super Cub wing. Tomorrow, Dave and I will pop the lid off the crate and put all the bits in the garage or the guest house. The crate itself will become part of a home improvemnent project I’ve been putting off for a long time.
What I actually got done on the cabin frame was to un-cleco the assembly, drill the aft attach bracket and deburr the upper and lower strips. Tomorrow I’ll set up some genius way to countersink the F-631A channels. Then if time permits, I’ll scrub them, rough them, and prime them.