Alexander Samoylovich's Blog – July 2023 Archive (17)

Zenith 750 Cruzer, Attaching trim tab

July 11 2023

Drilled, clecoed and attached the trim tab.

Added by Alexander Samoylovich on July 30, 2023 at 6:50pm — No Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, building the elevator weight balance arm

July 10 2023

Build small parts around the elevator weight arm.

Cutting and marking the horn doubler angle.

Drilling the holes under the right angle was the most difficult part.

I used a right angle drill extender from Harbor Freight.

Cut, drilled, trimmed and installed two L angles.…



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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on July 28, 2023 at 5:41pm — No Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, Stabilizer hinges and the weight balance arm

July 9 2023

Matched the stabilizer and the elevator with a piano hinge. They move not quite freely but better than I expected.

Started building the elevator weight balance arm.…



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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on July 27, 2023 at 6:56pm — 2 Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, Riveted the stabilizer top side skin

July 8 2023

Riveted the stabilizer skin. User ratcheted belts to close the skin. Much more convenient than to push by hand.

Almost at the end I dropped a drill bit inside the stabilizer through the rivet hole. The stabilizer is fully closed the there are no holes I could get the drill bit. I did not want to leave it there forever and rattle. On the other hand I did not want to remove a lot of rivets to get it out.

I used a wooden wedge to make a small gap between the skin and…

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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on July 22, 2023 at 3:45pm — No Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, stabilizer L angles

July 05 2023

Made L angles to attach the end ribs to the spars. The drawing is incorrect. It says to make 56 and 60 mm L angles. They are too short and do not fit the predrilled holes.

The assembly manual is right. The length of the L angles should be 75 mm. I used a long drill bit to drill through the spars. My electric drill does not fit the space.

Attention. I clecoed the ribs incorrectly. On the pictures the rib goes over the spar. The ribs should go between the…

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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on July 20, 2023 at 6:14pm — No Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, stabilizer skin

July 03 2023

Added the skin on the bottom side of the stabilizer. No surprises. Just a lot of clecos and rivets.…

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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on July 13, 2023 at 9:38pm — No Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, fixing and levelling the stabilizer

July 3 2023

Back to the stabilizer.

As the assembly instruction says before putting the stabilizer skin the stabilizer skeleton should be fixed on the workbench

and leveled. I used two pieces of scrap wood to fix the skeleton and a number of wedges to level it.…

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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on July 12, 2023 at 9:10pm — No Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, EAA counselor inspection

July 03 2023

Dale an EAA counselor came to check the current work state.

I showed him the stabilizer skeleton and the vertical fin. Dale found the work quality acceptable.

We discussed the ways of corrosion protection, importance to build light.

Dale discouraged me to use iPad as the only integrated instrument. It is not robust enough and can overheat easily.

The non-portable devices are much better. Also he warned me against usging the ADSB-out…

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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on July 12, 2023 at 9:07pm — No Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, elevator, L angles

June 16 2023

Cut L angles using the new band saw.

Using a wrapping paper to open the elevator skin to get a hand free access to the L angles.

Using a clamp to fix the L angle position.

Using 12 inches drill bit to make the L angle holes.…



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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on July 12, 2023 at 9:03pm — 2 Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, started building elevator

June 15 2023

Postponed working on the stabilizer waiting for the EAA counselor inspection.
Started working on the elevator.

Added by Alexander Samoylovich on July 9, 2023 at 4:09pm — No Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, finished the stabilizer skeleton

June 14 2023

Finished the stabilizer skeleton up to putting the skin.
Prepared parts for the elevator.

Added by Alexander Samoylovich on July 9, 2023 at 4:07pm — No Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, making the stabilizer skeleton

June 13 2023

Continued working on the stabilizer skeleton. 

Partially riveted the back spar.

Removing scratches from the doubler.…



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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on July 8, 2023 at 5:38pm — No Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, started the stabilizer skeleton

June 12 2023

Clecoed front and back spars.

Made the doubler. Scratched the doubler. Will remove the scratches later.…

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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on July 8, 2023 at 5:35pm — No Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, finished the fin

June 10 2023

Put the skin on the vertical fin.

Checked the rudder and fin have the correct gap.…



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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on July 7, 2023 at 11:47am — No Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, finished the fin skeleton

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.…

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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on July 6, 2023 at 2:34pm — No Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, making the fin skeleton

June 04 2023

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

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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on July 5, 2023 at 8:46pm — No Comments

Zenith 750 Cruzer, putting the rudder skin

June 03 2023

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

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Added by Alexander Samoylovich on July 4, 2023 at 3:03pm — No Comments

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