Zenith 750 Cruzer, A wing storage rack
July 22 2023A storage rack. It was designed to keep the wing. Since I do not have the wings yet I store the parts already built. It has enough room for the wings too.See More
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Zenith 750 Cruzer, Clecoed the trim servo
July 12 2023Sent Zenith an email with a question how many security wires do I need on the elevator piano hinge - 2 or 6.Clecoed the trim tab servo.Drilled the rest of the holes to the size.Finished the initial elevator assembly.…See More
Zenith 750 Cruzer, Attaching trim tab
July 11 2023Drilled, clecoed and attached the trim tab.See More
Zenith 750 Cruzer, Riveted the stabilizer top side skin
July 8 2023Riveted 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 the rib and a strong…See More
Zenith 750 Cruzer, stabilizer L angles
July 05 2023Made 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 spar and the skin. l…See More
Zenith 750 Cruzer, stabilizer skin
July 03 2023Added the skin on the bottom side of the stabilizer. No surprises. Just a lot of clecos and rivets.See More
Zenith 750 Cruzer, putting the rudder skin
June 03 2023I put the rudder skin the the skeleton. Basically I just repeated the job done on the Zenith rudder workshop.See More
Zenith 750 Cruzer, storage envelope
May 27 2023I 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.See More
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Zenith 750 Cruzer, A wing storage rack
Posted on August 12, 2023 at 9:52pm 0 Comments 1 Like
July 22 2023
A storage rack. It was designed to keep the wing. Since I do not have the wings yet I store the parts already built. It has enough room for the wings too.
Zenith 750 Cruzer, Clecoed the trim servo
Posted on August 1, 2023 at 8:27pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
July 12 2023
Sent Zenith an email with a question how many security wires do I need on the elevator piano hinge - 2 or 6.
Clecoed the trim tab servo.
Drilled the rest of the holes to the size.
Finished the initial elevator assembly.…
Zenith 750 Cruzer, Attaching trim tab
Posted on July 30, 2023 at 6:50pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
July 11 2023
Drilled, clecoed and attached the trim tab.
Zenith 750 Cruzer, building the elevator weight balance arm
Posted on July 28, 2023 at 5:41pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
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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