Category Archives: Wing Lockers

Centre Console, Chris Mills, Instrument Panel, Internal Trim, Panel, Wing Lockers

Wednesday 29th May 2019

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Music: Elton John and Dire Straits

I received two pieces of good news today. The first was the dispatch notification of my Airmaster propellor which will be delivered on the 4th June. And the second was that the ignition switch that I ordered 5 days ago was arriving from Germany today! With Chris here for a couple of days he can give me a hand to do some of the jobs that I haven’t got round to like installing the rivnuts for the interior panels and fitting the wing locker seals. I continued preparing the panel for the instrument fit and working out how best to install the centre console.

Chris came down to visit and give me a hand with some outstanding items.
As I’ve decided to make the interior panels removable rather than rivet them in Chris’ first job is to install the rivnuts that will take the 3mm button head retaining screws.
Who says I’m a slave driver! A happy worker 🙂
After the rivnuts the next job for Chris is to fit the wing locker seals to ensure that they are waterproof. As the seals are not included in the kit!?!? I’ve brought some draft excluder that should do the job.
Good job done. The seals will ensure that any luggage is kept dry
I continued prepping the panel for the instruments. These aluminium ‘washers’ are to spread the load of the nuts when used to secure the instruments.
Autopilot, Pitot System, Wing Lockers

Monday 13th May 2019

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Music: Elton John, Dido

With the delivery of a number of outstanding parts I was able to complete the wing locker and servo operating arm installs.

Now I have the fittings for the wing lockers I can finally finish off a long overdue job.
The weather-proofing washer is put over the lock barrel and the unit is inserted into the pre-drilled hole…
and locked into position with a nut.
The locking bar mechanism is fitted onto the lock barrel and held in place with a screw and shake proof washer.
The final part of the install is running a rubber seal around the inside edge of the wing locker to make it watertight. The same process is carried out for the starboard wing locker.
The wings are now complete!
Another item I’ve been waiting for is the servo operating arms so I could finish the servo install.
The roll servo is connected to the aileron operating rod with a clamp.
attached to the servo arm. The control stick and servo arm are centralised and the clamp position is marked so it can be riveted in place.
The only way you can get the aileron control rod out to is by dismantling a lot of the fittings that hold the control sticks
The clamp has two pre-drilled holes holes either side of the clamp that are used as a guide for the rivets. The first hole is drilled and cleco’d in position to ensure it doesn’t moved when drilling the other side.
Two 3.2mm rivets are used to further secure the clamp before refitting.
The pitch servo rod is a lot simpler to fit. Two AN3 nuts and bolts secure the rod in place and the final adjustment is made once the aircraft is rigged.
The roll servo and control arms completed.
Final job for today is to start installing the pressure system pipework for the pitot, AOA and static fittings