Alexander Samoylovich's Blog – June 2023 Archive (7)

Zenith 750 Cruzer, deburring the rudder

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.…

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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on June 30, 2023 at 5:33pm — No Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, started building rudder

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…

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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on June 29, 2023 at 6:13pm — 3 Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, storage envelope

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.

Added by Alexander Samoylovich on June 22, 2023 at 2:44pm — No Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, the kit inventory

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.…

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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on June 21, 2023 at 11:32am — No Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, the kit arrived

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.…

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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on June 20, 2023 at 9:21pm — No Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, building the workbench

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…

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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on June 19, 2023 at 6:57pm — No Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, signed the contract

July 27 2022.

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

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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on June 19, 2023 at 6:48pm — No Comments

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