Well - it has been about a month since I took delivery of N914 (some assembly required).
I've gone through things and have actually made quite a bit of progress on cleaning up from the fabric removal.
This plane has about 1000 hours on it. It was built as a C in 1972 and 4 years later, a Sparcraft wing was installed. It has been flown a lot and been on its back once.
Other than the repairs from nosing over - the wing does not show any of the known Sparcraft cracks.
My intention is to reinforce it while I'm at it as well as install all new bearings and AN hardware where I can.
The bearings saga has my checkbook smoking... and oddly I found a set of metric bearings in the stick with a machined bushing/spacer!
I have orders in to Aviat and ACS and continue to bead blast/prime and work on the wings.
Oh - and after searching for build pictures a lot, I decided it might be worth documenting things here - this is a commitment for me as always, I'd rather work than write!
Anyway - I will take and post a lot of pictures - remind me if it's been a while!
I've gone through things and have actually made quite a bit of progress on cleaning up from the fabric removal.
This plane has about 1000 hours on it. It was built as a C in 1972 and 4 years later, a Sparcraft wing was installed. It has been flown a lot and been on its back once.
Other than the repairs from nosing over - the wing does not show any of the known Sparcraft cracks.
My intention is to reinforce it while I'm at it as well as install all new bearings and AN hardware where I can.
The bearings saga has my checkbook smoking... and oddly I found a set of metric bearings in the stick with a machined bushing/spacer!
I have orders in to Aviat and ACS and continue to bead blast/prime and work on the wings.
Oh - and after searching for build pictures a lot, I decided it might be worth documenting things here - this is a commitment for me as always, I'd rather work than write!
Anyway - I will take and post a lot of pictures - remind me if it's been a while!
