Construction progress and builder's log for my Van's RV-7 project N769WB
I finished riveting the line of rivets on either side of the aft fuselage under where the horizontal stablizer will mount. These were a little tricky because of having to reach inside the tail cone with the bucking bar.
I also installed and torqued the forward bolts that hold the mount for the tailwheel spring.
I finally have aft bulkhead and tail wheel mount riveted into the fuselage.
This went smoothly with the exception of a few rivets where the holes had become enlarged so I opened them up for some NAS oversize rivets.
I assembled the rear bulkhead and tail wheel mount but found that I still needed to trim the cutout a tiny bit more. More importantly I also had to open up and dimple some of the bottom rivet holes for the Cherry Max blind rivets.
After all this I did some final touch up priming.
No photos today.
The new reamer did the trick and I was able to finish up the forward taper pin fairly quickly.
I then disassembled the tail wheel components and deburred everything.
After that I degreased everything, scuffed it for priming, cleaned it again then primed.
Once the primer cured I put on 2 coats of Majic heavy duty spray enamel. (Color: Ford Tractor Light Gray) This paint was recommended on the VAF forum and is almost an exact match for the color Van's uses for powder coating steel parts.
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