November 28, 2024 - RV-10 Build Progress
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| A few things were still required on the center console so I got it down off the storage rack, dusted it off, and put it on the work bench. |
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It's time to start thinking about attaching the three control cables -- throttle, prop control, and mixture -- to the throttle quadrant and run them through the firewall.
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| The fuel selector valve cover is installed. |
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| Years ago we had all the floor and side panels professionally painted. I got them off the storage rack and cleaned the dust off. |
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I couldn't believe how many panels are on this airplane.
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| I started with the front floor panels. I had to do some trimming to get them to fit properly. Now they are clecoed in and ready for pop-riveting. This is the right side. |
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And the left side.
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| My friend Ken was visiting and helped me on the RV-10 two days. He knows what he's doing and is a much harder worker than I am. He did most of the pop-riveting on front floor pants, bless his heart. It was not easy doing the rivets farthest forward. |
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| Ken really enjoyed working on the RV-10. |
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| The right front floor panel is done. Looking good! |
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| I was kind of working front to back, so the next step was to screw down the seat floor panel and seal rails. Ken did the pilot side and I did the co-pilot side. |
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| The co-pilot side. I also inserted the right side panel as seen in this picture. |
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| Nhu-An was in town and worked on attaching the rudder autopilot servo cables to the rudder cables. Rich's brother Don is helping here. Nnu-An's new puppy dog Pooh is staying close. |
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| As you can see, it wasn't easy working on this particular job. |
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Next item of business were the passenger seat floors. First we clecoed them down.
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| Then Nhu-An and Don work on pop-riveting the passenger seat floors down. We use the pneumatic pop-rivet gun, of course. |
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The cutouts in the passenger seat floors are to provide access to the Com antenna cable attachments. The openings get covered with panels.
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| Don re-drilling one of the holes. The puppy dog is tired and can sleep anywhere, but likes to be close to people. |
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| We screwed down the side panels and center floor strips. It's looking good! This was one of those rare days on the project when we had a lot to show for our efforts. |
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| A good look at all the installed paneling. As we like to say, "It's coming together." |
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The front side panels will be covered by the grey and red interior piece.
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A box on the storage rack contained all these Aerosport side panels. A veritable treasure trove!
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| Ken and I installed the passenger side panels. All that was required was a little trimming and some good measuring to know where to drill the holes in the ribs for the nutplates. |
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| The right passenger and baggage side panels installed. |
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A thin panel goes over the baggage door. It is secured by two screws that go into tapped holes in the main longeron.
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| I installed the vent cover for the passenger side panel. The vent needs a little adjustment to sit flat in the panel. |
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| And the left side passenger vent. |
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The black trim around the window area woud not stay on the headliner. I took them home, and Lynnette and I secured the black trim to the headliners using a hot glue-gun. It was a two-person job. But it came out very nice. The trim isn't coming off, I can assure you of that.
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| The headliners secure to the cabin cover using velcro. |
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The right side headliner is installed in the RV-10. The bottom edge is held down by the side panels.
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| Both headliners are now in. |
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| The baggage door panel is held on to the door by adhesive strips. It was an easy task to install the the baggage door arm with compression strut. |
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| The engine should be arriving one of these days so it bothered me that I hadn't seen the Lord Mounts and bolts for the engine. So I made a dedicated search for them and finally found the "Engine Vibration Isolators" in a toolbox drawer. You would not believe how much these things cost so we were glad to have found them. |
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| I also found the engine mount bolts in a brown paper bag in the firewall forward box. |
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| Nhu-An ordered these Cam-Loc fasteners for the engine cowling. I don't care for the stock hinge system. With just hinges, it looks like the cowl would be hard to get on and off and to me that's a safety issue; i.e., if the cowl is a pain to remove and install, you won't do it, and there will be many times when you want to look under the hood to check something. |
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