Zenith 750 Cruzer, Wing craddles
February 27, 2024Riveted the left wing craddles to support wires and lines.Fabricated wing supports for pitot tubes and return fuel line. I will rivet them to the wing skin angle.See More
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Applying Cortec question
Started this discussion. Last reply by Alexander Samoylovich Nov 25, 2023. 8 Replies 0 Likes
Hello.How to apply Cortec correctly?I read the Forum and the Cortec user's manual. I dilute Cortec with distilled water 4:1. I clean the surface with acetone, rough a bit with scotchbrite and clean…Continue
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Zenith 750 Cruzer, Making a strap duplicator
January 09, 2024Made a simple strap duplicator to drill to hole for the AN3 bolt in the root of the spar angle.See More
Zenith 750 Cruzer, Fabricated root skin angles
December 20, 2023Drilled the angles.Bent and started drilling root top skin angles.See More
Zenith 750 Cruzer, Riveting the flapperon arms
December 12, 2023Riveted the flapperon arms. All rivets on the arm near the tank are set the blind side toward the tank to reduce a possible interference.Since I did not set the rivets in the skin near the arms the riveting was smooth. I had not had to remove any rivets to make a room for the rivet tool.…See More
Zenith 750 Cruzer, Rivetting the bottom skin
December 11, 2023Leveled the wing. Used a laser guide to level. Much more convenient than a bubble or digital angle finder.See More
Zenith 750 Cruzer, Removing the wing top skin
November 09, 2023After a long time of doubts and experiments I am moving forward again.I reinstalled the new spar root angle, nose root rib and the related parts.Started removing the wing top skin to debur everything and prepare the wing for storage.…See More
Zenith 750 Cruzer, Matching the spar root angle
November 1, 2023Zenith sent me a new spar root angle. Matching it to the root top skin and the root nose rib was a difficult task.I spent several days trying to match them. I have some version represented on the pictures.I sent the photos to Zenith and will talk to them to decide it the solution is good enough to proceed or I have to invent something different.I bent the angle several times. I am not sure it is still strong enough. May be I will ordere a new one.If I move the root end of the…See More
Zenith 750 Cruzer, Clecoed the top skins.
September 26 2023.Clecoed the top and the front skins of the right wing. Used ratcheted straps as the assembly manual says. Tried to do it by hand but failed.See More
Zenith 750 Cruzer, Preparing L angles to the top skin
September 24 2023Preparing L angles to the top skin.Clecoed the L angles to the top skin. Covered the skin and the L angles with cortec.Levelled the right wing on the workbench. Preparing to work on the top skins.See More
Zenith 750 Cruzer, riveted the flapperon arms
September 20 2023Riveted the flapperon arms.Made 2 mistakes.Had to remove the rivets from the bottom skin near the flapperon arm doubler (3 places, 6 rivets together) to make the room for the riveter.Riveted the first rib arm from inside to not interfere with the gas tank.See More
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Alexander Samoylovich's Blog
Zenith 750 Cruzer, Wing craddles
Posted on October 11, 2024 at 8:13am 0 Comments 0 Likes
February 27, 2024
Riveted the left wing craddles to support wires and lines.
Fabricated wing supports for pitot tubes and return fuel line. I will rivet them to the wing skin angle.…
Zenith 750 Cruzer, Drilled the fuel sender hole
Posted on October 10, 2024 at 7:42am 0 Comments 0 Likes
January 17, 2024
Checked the fuel sender arm is bent correctly. I used the technique described here: 6k1b-fuel-sender.pdf
Drilled the hole for the fuel sender using a circle cutter from Harbor Freight. Deburred the edges.
Zenith 750 Cruzer, Bent the fuel sender arm
Posted on October 9, 2024 at 9:38am 0 Comments 0 Likes
January 16, 2024
Bent the fuel sender arm accordingly to 75-KA-1.pdf.
Checked the fuel sender resistance range. The full range is about 4-73 ohms. When installed in the tank it will be less.
Zenith 750 Cruzer, Making a strap duplicator
Posted on October 8, 2024 at 11:29am 0 Comments 1 Like
January 09, 2024
Made a simple strap duplicator to drill to hole for the AN3 bolt in the root of the spar angle.
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