Manuel Saldivar Thank you-glad you enjoy the vids!

I hope so-I'd like to see a lot of SD's out there. We can all meet up somewhere for an awesome back-country camping trip!

Great-glad the videos help!

Al Watt I flew RC helis for many years. I think they were more expensive than what I’m building now! Lol

You are not wrong. They have become very powerful and clever thus the price for the kit and flybarless units etc make them very expensive now, by the time you put in the avionics. A friend at my club took his newly built RC helicopter to fly yesterday, even I could not believe the total cost. I love your series it's so interesting to watch a quality kit go together. Thank you for making the effort to film it for us.

I was also wondering why Mark didn't do this?

Generally I will prime both surfaces that touch. So I'll prime the outside of the bottom skin, and the inside of the top skin.

When I built my Cruzer I saved every rivet stem. The container probably weighed 25 pounds! I threw them all in the re-cycle bin.

Dale Gloer Really? I didn’t know that. Is that what they are specifically designed for? I’ve always used them as grommets!

Dale, NO they are not! these are snap bushings for pipes and electrical wires. What you refer to are LED bezels and are much, much smaller and different than these!

I worked on Minuteman III nuclear missiles (actually rockets) for 4 years, and F-16's and A-10's for 16 years. My job on the aircraft was maintaining the ejection systems. So, the life of the pilot depended on me doing my job correctly and perfectly. That's how I like to build my airplanes now. Even though no one is supervising me, I still try to make every part as perfect as I can. If I screw up a part, I man up and buy a new part. I don't try to make it work knowing that it's not perfect. The benefit of 20 years of Air Force maintenance experience is the Experience! There's no substitute for experience. Even though my job was Egress, I spent a lot of time in the sheet metal shop having the guys teach me how to rivet and work with aluminum. I'd roam over to the hydraulics shop and see what I could learn there too. I'd even go hang out with the crew chiefs and see what kind of paperwork they had to do. All this observation and training just gave me a good understanding of aircraft structures and systems. I'd also happen to roam over to the bench stock room where nuts, bolts, clamps, and all kinds of cool hardware would accidentally fall into my pockets. I never would notice until I got home. Ya, that was my favorite part...

No can do! I don't log or keep track of time. When I'm building I may work for an hour or two, take a break and go to the computer to enter the footage into the computer, then eat lunch, go to the gym, then work again in the hangar later that day. There's no way for me to keep track of the time I'm working on the project.

No. Next video will talk more about this.

Airline pilot. Not retired, but I took vacation all this month, and a paid leave for next month. So I have two months off. Things will slow down when I return to work in November. Unless I just quit...maybe I'll quit.

Kitplane Enthusiast I have the same job, but a veryy diferent country....I hope I can build so many planes but its expensive to import here in Argentina. Good videos , luck with the channel !!

My servo is riveted in place. I riveted it in the elevator after it was painted so if I ever have to replace the servo I can drill out 4 unpainted rivets without messing up the paint on the elevator.

Oh NOW you tell me! LOL. I always try to think ahead for things like this but never thought about drilling that hole. It still doesn't look that difficult to drill with a 6" drill bit and I have bunch of those. I guess I'll figure that out when it comes time to attach the elevator!

Don’t build an aluminum airplane if you don’t like the waves in the skins! They are all like that to some degree.

Dang it I just deleted my reply by accident! I did put weights on the elevator when I riveted it, but that was just to hold it flat to the workbench. I don't think it had any affect on preventing the skin from bulging. The skins seemed to fit really nicely.

You will see the death of that pneumatic puller in Ep7 (or maybe it’s Ep8). I’ve ordered a new one from Zenith. It’s never pulled a river in one squeeze. I think it just doesn’t have enough travel. Hopefully the new one will.

Pull the front nose cover off and check that the locknuts haven’t loosened up.

Hey thanks for the comment. Actually a lot of parts have holes drilled from the CNC machines so that they can not be installed incorrectly. I'll have to mention to Zenith that maybe they can change a couple of holes so it can not be installed backwards. Some bolts will eventually get lock wired but the nut plates are locking.

That's correct-The only place I think it needed it was on the forward wing skins on the Cruzer. These skins fit perfectly flat against each other.

Hmmm, it was your Cruzer that inspired me to form all my edges on my Super Duty. I agree that not necessarily required but it sure does make those edges crisp. You think any possible harm? Or just a waste of time?

@@shanrock3555 No harm...just as you say "a waste of time" LOL! A lot of guys bend the edge of all the skins on the Vans RV's too. It won't hurt anything.

I see no problem with unpainted rivets. There's quite a few on my Cruzer.

@@KitplaneEnthusiast Not a problem but with your OCD being like mine (bolts turned to the flats line up and screws with the slots lined up), I just thought it would make them look like an after thought. I would be out there with a small brush putting paint on them :-)

You'll need a couple hundred probably when it comes time for the wings and fuselage.

There's flat piece of aluminum that covers that hole. It gets riveted to the skin. I chose to install nutplates so that I can remove the cover is necessary.