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\nThought I was going to be done with the control column, but no, still had to remove more metal from the lightening holes of the seat ribs for clearance. Now it’s all good, and the control column is bolted in, torqued, and torque-sealed. So little appreciable effect for an hour and a half of work, but now it’s in and done. I still have to drill holes in the sticks for later switchgear, but they can come out easily. I had hoped to get going on the roll bar, but if I can finish this rigging task, then I can call it done until it’s time to actually bolt the wings on. I’ve also decided to get the trio autopilot servo and mounting kit, which i’ll put in the wing before I close it up, rather than under the seat floor in the most outboard bay. I’m saving that spot for the strobe kit, and the trim servo has to go somewhere as well. It’s going to start getting crowded in there soon. I still need to rig the rudder, so I’ll probably do that while i’ve got the tail on. I can pop the cable grommets out for painting.
\nAnother thought about painting the interior: There’s not a lot to paint in there; aft seat floors, sides, armrests, and the forward part of the aft top skin. The rest are all detachable and will get painted separately. It’s a full weekend’s work, I think, painting all that stuff. I want to get the roll bar done before I paint, and ideally I’d like to have the finish kit so I can paint the canopy frame as well.
\nNot that it matters. A lot of this will have to wait until the weather gets better and I have some time. I just hate having too many irons in the fire at one time, especially with limited space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1.5 hours Thought I was going to be done with the control column, but no, still had to remove more metal from the lightening holes of the seat ribs for clearance. Now it’s all good, and the control column is bolted in, torqued, and torque-sealed. So little appreciable effect for an hour and a half […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}