Bill Rusk
BENEFACTOR
Sandpoint, Idaho
Folks
Been making pretty steady progress tackling all the little details (and a few big ones). First I will share a little goof in the hopes that I can spare you making the same, or a similar mistake. I'm sure you have had that little inner voice talk to you when you are about to do something dumb. Like when you set an open paint can on the sawhorse, then the voice says......."don't do that, you are setting yourself up to knock it over and make a big mess". Or perhaps it is something like....."don't leave that tool there, it will fall off and damage the paint" etc. What I am reminding you of now......is try to get REALLY GOOD at listening to that little voice. I try, and on the whole I do pretty good but I had a lapse and I failed to listen and sure enough I paid the price.
Aileron cable the way it should be.
I left the cable hanging down, and as I walked under the wing it caught on the back of my shirt collar and I ripped the fabric about 8 inches. I think I can make a pretty good repair but it has cost time and a great deal of frustration. Nothing like damaging the airplane before I ever fly it. But this also brings up a point. Building a Cub is a BIG project and it will not (at least for me) be perfect. So try to brace yourself for things to go wrong, for they most certainly will. You will recover and it will all be good, but I recommend you not believe you are going to tackle this project and have everything always turn out perfect.
My good friend Cal is a bit of a metallurgist and he moulded up some weights for my variable CG program. 2) 10 pounders and 4) 5 pounders.
They are about this size and......
They will bolt into the fuselage on top of the "C" channels I had Jay weld in. It will be very interesting to see how this works out.
My good friend Jim, helping with the install of the magnetometer.
I used my neighbors paint booth as an experiment and it was certainly nice. Much better than my booth. I have been getting a lot of dirt in the paint. I think I have narrowed it down (just when I am about done painting) to the intake filters. It's a long story.......
If you pay better attention than I did to exactly where your stripes are running you can save yourself a lot of time. My window frame just catches a little of the stripe. If I had run the stripe just a little lower, it would have made no difference but I would not have had to take the time to paint this little bit of red on the frame. Same for the wing tank covers as Steve Pierce pointed out above. THINK.... man...... THINK. (something I don't do enough of)
Masking the stripes......
I played with the computer and printer, trying different fonts and sizes to get the decals looking the way I wanted. They have beed ordered. They will be red and match the stripe. Like the last build.
I will put a little bling on the floats as well......
Finally....the tail # will be something like this.......
So not a lot to share from a lessons learned point except to say LISTEN TO YOUR INNER VOICE
Also, just a heads up to you Javron kit builders. Jay used the FAA form "Aircraft Bill of Sale" to give the receipt for the kit. You will need this to register your plane....BUT.....I got mine back from the FAA and they wanted me to line out the word Aircraft and write in "Kit" so it reads "Kit Bill of Sale". So, if your receipt from Jay says "Aircraft Bill of Sale" line out aircraft and write in kit. I have told Jay about this and he will correct it for all future kit buyers, but if you already have your kit, there is a little heads up to save you some time.
Hope this helps
Bill
Been making pretty steady progress tackling all the little details (and a few big ones). First I will share a little goof in the hopes that I can spare you making the same, or a similar mistake. I'm sure you have had that little inner voice talk to you when you are about to do something dumb. Like when you set an open paint can on the sawhorse, then the voice says......."don't do that, you are setting yourself up to knock it over and make a big mess". Or perhaps it is something like....."don't leave that tool there, it will fall off and damage the paint" etc. What I am reminding you of now......is try to get REALLY GOOD at listening to that little voice. I try, and on the whole I do pretty good but I had a lapse and I failed to listen and sure enough I paid the price.
Aileron cable the way it should be.
I left the cable hanging down, and as I walked under the wing it caught on the back of my shirt collar and I ripped the fabric about 8 inches. I think I can make a pretty good repair but it has cost time and a great deal of frustration. Nothing like damaging the airplane before I ever fly it. But this also brings up a point. Building a Cub is a BIG project and it will not (at least for me) be perfect. So try to brace yourself for things to go wrong, for they most certainly will. You will recover and it will all be good, but I recommend you not believe you are going to tackle this project and have everything always turn out perfect.
My good friend Cal is a bit of a metallurgist and he moulded up some weights for my variable CG program. 2) 10 pounders and 4) 5 pounders.
They are about this size and......
They will bolt into the fuselage on top of the "C" channels I had Jay weld in. It will be very interesting to see how this works out.
My good friend Jim, helping with the install of the magnetometer.
I used my neighbors paint booth as an experiment and it was certainly nice. Much better than my booth. I have been getting a lot of dirt in the paint. I think I have narrowed it down (just when I am about done painting) to the intake filters. It's a long story.......
If you pay better attention than I did to exactly where your stripes are running you can save yourself a lot of time. My window frame just catches a little of the stripe. If I had run the stripe just a little lower, it would have made no difference but I would not have had to take the time to paint this little bit of red on the frame. Same for the wing tank covers as Steve Pierce pointed out above. THINK.... man...... THINK. (something I don't do enough of)
Masking the stripes......
I played with the computer and printer, trying different fonts and sizes to get the decals looking the way I wanted. They have beed ordered. They will be red and match the stripe. Like the last build.
I will put a little bling on the floats as well......
Finally....the tail # will be something like this.......
So not a lot to share from a lessons learned point except to say LISTEN TO YOUR INNER VOICE
Also, just a heads up to you Javron kit builders. Jay used the FAA form "Aircraft Bill of Sale" to give the receipt for the kit. You will need this to register your plane....BUT.....I got mine back from the FAA and they wanted me to line out the word Aircraft and write in "Kit" so it reads "Kit Bill of Sale". So, if your receipt from Jay says "Aircraft Bill of Sale" line out aircraft and write in kit. I have told Jay about this and he will correct it for all future kit buyers, but if you already have your kit, there is a little heads up to save you some time.
Hope this helps
Bill