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Buck's RV-8
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Date: 11-8-2007
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Number of Hours: 6.20
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Brief Description: Front seat; rollover bar; mid-cabin covers; pedals
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I completed the front seat-back by squeezing the remaining rivets with a friend's longeron yoke.
Next, I fitted and drilled the WD-814 rollover bar, then removed it de-burred all the holes. I also touched up the paint on one area of the bar where it had rubbed through and was showing bare steel. I also trimmed and deburred the F-8104 support rib for the rollover bar.
Next, I bent the F-881 mid-cabin covers and drilled and clecoed them in place. This allowed me to fit, drill and cleco all the front seat pan parts (F-879, F-880A and F-880Bs) in place. While I was dealing with the seat pan, I drilled out the inserts in the crotch strap on my Hooker harness. I'll replace these (somehow) with thinner inserts later.
I got my rudder pedal extensions back from the machine shop, where they'd been bent to about 15 degrees. (One was actually overbent a bit, so we bent it back slightly with a giant 50,000 lb. hydraulic press. Gotta love BIG power tools. Arrr. arrr.) I cleaned up the extensions and polished them, then filed and polished the rudder pedals. then I prepped and primed the contact surfaces of the two parts, and riveted everything together. I think they look really nice! It'll be a shame to powder coat them.
Finally, I began planning the installation of my Andair fuel selector.
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Riveting the front seats with a wonderful tool I don't own yet -- a longeron-yoke squeezer.
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Assembling the front seat pan and the mid-cabin covers.
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My custom pedals, with extensions installed.
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