June 09 2023

Assembled the fin skeleton.

Covered the fin skeleton and the fin skin with cortec.

Started putting the skin on the vertical fin.…

June 04 2023

Clecoed, deburred and covered with cortec the vertical fin skeleton.…

June 03 2023

I put the rudder skin the the skeleton. Basically I just repeated the job done on the Zenith rudder workshop.…

June 02 2023

Deburred the rudder. Speed deburring tool is very convenient. Much better than a drill bit.

Covered the aluminum touching areas with Cortec diluted by distilled water 4:1.

Tested the Milwaukee electric riveter. The Zenith heads from the pneumatic rivet gun look to work fine. The heads from the hand riveter do not match.

I will post the pictures of the Milwaukee electric riveter later.…

May 31 2023

Started building the rudder. Initial assembly. Deburring.

Using a carb cleaning spray to unglue the labels. It works in two steps. First spray, wait 10 seconds, unglue the label. Second spray, wipe out the rest of the glue. Change the rags often They are getting dirty quickly.

Made a simple tool to drive stubborn rivets in. It is a wooden dowel. I drilled the hole for the rivet stem slightly off the center. Turned out it is more convenient than using…

May 27 2023

I used the most of the kit package lumber to build the workbench. The rest of it I used to build an envelope for large flat parts like skins. I put the envelope along the garage wall.

May 16 2023

The kit inventory took 4 days. No parts are missed. The brakes are in the wait list. Two parts turned out to be damaged on the factory. Zenith replaced them for free. There were a couple of issues with the parts labelled incorrectly. An email to Zenith solved the problem.…

May 10 2023

The kit arrived. I orderer the full kit and a delivery. It was the right decision. The kit is so big I doubt I would be able to handle it myself. The track driver had a nice electrically driven forklift.…

March 27 2023

It is my first plane build. I do not know what is good and what is bad.

I do not know in advance which workbench I will like the most.

I decided instead of making the ultimate workbench to build a workbench which is just good enough to start building.

When I have more experience I can rebuild my cheap workbench for something more suitable.

Or keep it. Or upgrade it. I am building a simple workbench similar to what I saw in the Zenith…

July 27 2022.

Purchased the Zenith 750 Cruzer kit on Oshkosh. Signed a check for 50%.…