December 8, 2024

Installed the instrument panel

December 7, 2024

Drilled left door frames holes to #21.

Riveted piano hinges to the door frames.

Drilled out the SS rivets on the left side.…

November 30, 2024

Drilling and clecoeng the forward to skin.

Questions to Zenith about the skin.

My instrument panel is wide. I cannot wrap the skin around the cabin frame like on the drawings. I suspect the drawings is for the SD only.

Should the top skin be over the side skin or under, like the drawings says.

The most difficult - what to do with the 9 SS A5 rivets in the cabin frame? Should I remove them and set again through the top skin or I can leave the…

November 29, 2024

Started installing the forward top skin.
Continued making the left door frame.

November 27, 2024

Clecoed #30 the external gussets to the frame bars.

It is not clear what size, what type and what pitch of rivets to use in different parts of the window. I will ask Zenith.

The areas to question are: size A4 or A5, pitch 100 or 60, material soft, regular, SS, countersink, countersink angle (100 or 120)

Gussets IB

Gussets OB

Bubble

Frame braces

Zenith's ansrwers:

The gusset rivets are all A5.

The bracket rivets are…