Today I worked on riveting the baggage door. First I added two nut plates for my offset hinge attachments. I riveted the angles to the...

I bought an oil filter adapter for my eventual engine build. I dropped it onto the accessory case for the fun of it. We will have to...

I had a bunch of time to spend out in the garage today. We have extremely cold temperatures here in Western NC, and our furnace is...

I started today by comping my rode ends in place to locate the hinges. I intend to keep the rod ends narrower than the hinge brackets,...

I decided to put some more curve into the skin for the baggage door to help it fit better. I used the same basic method for rolled...

Since my lock cylinder is offset inboard by about 1/4 inch, I looked at ways to fix the misalignment in the pins that will create. This...

Today I worked on trimming my modified opening. I will add a couple of clips to tie the two pieces together later. I measured to try and...

Today I worked on my baggage door design. I started by opening up the access hole for the lock cylinder. This needs to be larger to...

I had a few minutes to clean up my modified lock cylinder.

I started by drilling the kit skin to the structure per the build manual Then I clamped the skin to the new piece of sheet I bought as...

I cut and ground the second hinge to be the mirror image of the first.

Some of my parts came in for my modified baggage door hinge. This included a strut I will use to hold the door open. I have not decided...

Darren came by to help me rivet the top skin. I spent some time lying in the trail while he riveted from the outside. I still have the...

I started to prep the aft top skin to rivet, and realized I was short some rivets. This should come this week. Payton came out to hang...

One silly thing that has always bugged be a little bit, was the somewhat exposed piano hinge for the baggage door. Here is how it...

I clecoed the forward fuselage skin back on today. I made a little piece of scrap angle to hold the opening for the baggage door square....

I layed out the small handful of parts to paint and scuffed them before painting them. I also laced the static line to the rib after...

My pro seal came from Van's this week, so m came up with a way to hold the static ports in place. I had a couple of scraps of wood that...

Non airplane related unfortunately, but I had driveway lights that stopped working. It seems like the buried cable broke somewhere at...