October 10, 2006
Here's what I was talking about yesterday, I think this is how it is supposed to go.
If you have noticed my watermark missing from the images, that is because I've simplified thing drastically. Yeah I think the water mark is cool but it was taking me too long, instead I changed my camera setting to take pictures at 640 x 480, now I don't need to thumbnail them in Photoshop, I would have Photochop add the watermark when it was doing the thumbnail thing. Another good thing is now I don't have two versions which means less files to worry about. The down side is resolution if I ever wanted it, so far I haven't. I put this site together with Dreamweaver and up until a couple days ago I would drag the images in there place one at a time because DW doesn't let you select multiple files, at least I don't know how. Then all of a sudden I thought of multi selecting outside of DW, ie, windows explorer, and copying then pasting back in my DW index file and bam, that is easy. Less time building the page with images and links frees up time for a little writing/explanations of this ridiculous activity. Long story short, I can update my site way faster now, I like that.
Here is my 812 bulkhead with rivet locations.
I had a little trouble disassembling the tail wheel spring. The white mallet at the bottom of the image came in handy.
Drilling this thing seemed a little random and left up to me. I first drilled the two "rivet keeper" holes in 812 by setting the TWS in the notch and rotating it till it was even. Note: this is not how they tell you to do it, you are supposed to leave the spring in and while it's jigged up, rotate until the wheel wheel holder is vertical. I hope my method comes out close.
Here's a beauty and my reasoning for saving some dough on the jig. The floor is going to help align this puppy, Van's has done an awesome job building this kit.
I am going to wait to notch the longerons for the VS support bars until later when I get more comfortable with 811's location.
BTW, I measured the distance between 804 and 806 then I measured the distance between the front and rear wing spars and they are 3/32 farther apart, granted the skins are not on yet so I will keep that on my mind when I get around to skinning the wings, I'm not sure what I can do about it if they come out long but I sure it will all work out.