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It varies. I try to spend weekends working on it, but at the moment it’s small stuff since I’m waiting for avionics and engine so I can’t do too much. I’m building in my garage which makes it a lot easier to spend time on it whenever I can.

I'm on 745 hours so far and have, other than for filling rivets, completed the empennage, wings and have the fuselage to about 80% complete (undercarriage in, canopy on, upholstery 95% complete, some firewall forward done). This is broken down as follows (rounding off so it won't reconcile exactly):...

Just to provide some feedback, I eventually bought some Aveo RGBW overhead lights despite my dislike for the brand as detailed elsewhere. This required some modification to the canopy (enlarging the holes) as well as fabrication of some filler pieces (3D printed in ABS) to take up the gap between th...

Thank you, link does not work but I managed to use your description to find what you were referring to. I think it's going to be too big as well, I'll have to try to be a bit more creative.

Thanks, would you mind reposting the link? I can’t open it

Hi Thanks, yes I’ve done something similar with rivets elsewhere, Dremel is one of my go-to tools. I’m less worried about getting it out, it’s effort but possible. What I’m battling with is getting a replacement rivet in again, rivet guns just don’t fit in there between the ribs and torque tube comp...

I've installed the short elevator torque tube as well as the fuselage bottom and side skins and the CF-CHL-039/040 components. However, I'm really not happy with the fitment of the torque tube, now that everything is riveted in place, I had to grind a LOT of the inner groove for the center vesconite...

Posted this on the Facebook page too, but in case anyone here isn't checking that please can you help. Not many toe brake installations in the wild. Can anyone advise (and provide pictures if possible) of the brake line routing from the park brake valve in the center console forward to the master cy...

I see you're steaming ahead with your build Rob, you'll be done in 6 months at the rate you're going! Good luck, I see you're also logging on We Build Planes.

Intro manual was in empennage kit and should be on Dropbox too, just download the Dropbox files and then use the latest version you have between the kit hardcopy and electronic version. I’d recommend getting the electronic versions since you can zoom in on sections which may be difficult to read on ...