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Early morning is a great time to get things done on your project. I have the basement garage like you do, so my family doesn't always appreciate my air compressor turning on and my drills and cutters ...

If you install the fuel tanks before putting on the nose skin, it gives you a little more room to work on your tank installation without having to bend over that extra distance. I'm at the same point ...

It also looks like you will have to cut a notch in the L piece so that it can be moved outboard to align its rivet line with the rib centerline.

Bryan Ekholm

I hope this picture helps. There are 12 3/16' bolts plus the four A5 rivets.

Bryan

I just completed my right wing. The only parts you need to worry about not attaching permanently to the wing skeleton are the front strut attach point and the tie down ring. It just makes it a litt ...

We always bring our bikes along to transport ourselves to and from the flight-line, showers, the Ford Theater, etc. It is a long walk otherwise. And you'll get plenty of walking in on the main groun ...

For my 701 I've been toying with the idea of fabricating some sort of visial gauge similar to how a cub is set up. The sight gauge would have to be set up outside of the cabin rather than inside due ...

Thanks for the replies. I will go ahead and run 3 wires per wing, probably 16ga just to make certain I have big enough wire in the event that I go with the xenon strobe. But I'm leaning towards usin ...

I am about to close up one of my wings but have not purchased the nav/strobe lights yet. I need to free up some clecoes to finish up the other wing. Could someone tell me how many wires need to be r ...

Try using a little penetrating oil and then either wiggle it out like you were doing or us a punch and rap it out if you can figure out a way to get by the flange on the other side.

Bryan Ekholm

Ianrat,

I like the paint scheme. I have been seriously considering using the Suzuki 1.3L with the Raven Redrive as well. I bought the manual from Raven (Jeron?) and attended the builders forum wh ...

Kevin,

Since I'm at my work computer, the zenith.aero website is filtered as a "social networking" site and won't display any of the pictures. I do get the text, but not the pictures. S ...

Kevin,

The wing tank access cover shown in the plans is what I am planning on doing with my wings. I see no problem with using a cover as shown. And it beats removing the whole top skin or half ...

I wish I would have had that info or thought of that technique while I was forming my ribs, etc. I think I ended up splitting the forming bocks at least twice to apply the flutes with my fluting plie ...

I thought mine was a bit sloppy too but it does end up drilling a decent hole. Not bad for a $40 tool.

Bryan Ekholm

I will be bending my 701 main gear in the near future also, so this post interests me. Any tips or suggestions from those who have already been through the process would be greatly appreciated.

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Bobkat,
I'll take one of the four.

Bryan Ekholm
5077 County Road 3 NW
Annandale, MN 55302

320-282-7042
ekholmbk@lakedalelink.net

Let me know how much for the postage and I'll send you a c ...

I built my wings first and then used a template to set the front attach point on the cabin frame. Attached is a picture that somewhat shows that I kept the rear spar at the root in line with the rest ...

For me I would say I will save about a quarter to a third of the cost of the airframe kit by building from plans. Of course I bought my aluminum about six or seven years ago. The prices were much lo ...

I scratch built my spars using a rivet gun and bucking bar and had the same curvature, probably about an inch, when it was complete. I had the spar angles secured to the table so I didn't even notice ...