Narfi's Zenith CH750 Super Duty
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Really nice, precise work Narfi, you have satisfied my appetite for a few days. Thank you.
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Thanks, won't get back to it till next week. Too many irons in the fireDAVE LUDICK wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 6:17 am Really nice, precise work Narfi, you have satisfied my appetite for a few days. Thank you.
Got black on landons bed last night after two thick coats of white primer. Tonight I'll skuff it all up to get the white showing through in places and then 3 coats of clear coat. Then he can move into his new bedroom
Did the armoire first, so it and the bed will match. It has a slide out desk in it and will have a small tv/monitor on a swing arm that can be used inside as a computer monitor or pulled out as a tv/gaming screen.
*We made the bed, just "refinished" the armoire.
Re: Narfi's Zenith CH750 Super Duty
Nice Narfi!!! Jeff
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Nice work Narfi. I like to see some one else doing some good work finishing there projects.
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Well we moved back up to the top floor this weekend.
Landons room is done and everything else nearly done, still waiting on the black iron for the rails on the stairs and a few touch up spots here and there but close enough to move back in. Hope to get back to working on the airplane in a few days, still need to do alot of sorting and putting stuff away.
I am pretty happy with the way the bed turned out, spent half a day putting all the hardware on, but it really makes it imo.
Landons room is done and everything else nearly done, still waiting on the black iron for the rails on the stairs and a few touch up spots here and there but close enough to move back in. Hope to get back to working on the airplane in a few days, still need to do alot of sorting and putting stuff away.
I am pretty happy with the way the bed turned out, spent half a day putting all the hardware on, but it really makes it imo.
Re: Narfi's Zenith CH750 Super Duty
Very nice Narfi!!
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Re: Narfi's Zenith CH750 Super Duty
Man you should be in mamas good graces. Very nice work.
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You are indeed a man of many talents, your work, whatever it is, deserves recognition. A beautiful room for your son. He is fortunate to have a dad like you.
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Well done Narfi!!! Jeff
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~5hrs
Landon helped me cut a piece of aluminum for the rudder leading edge and vacume form the radius before the sounds of kids in the neighborhood distracted him.
I got it fitted in place sandwiched between the spar and rear skin to drill all the pilot holes to the spar.
Got the lower rib aligned and drilled. Dinged the leading edge a little with the squared off front of the rib sliding it back and forth, but not bad enough to need to redo it all. Lesson learned though, I should have left the skin looser right there.
I need to call Roger and find out the shape and dimensions to trim the lower section of the skin, the drawings show it curved up, but looking at some recent assembly videos online it looks straight.... Is it trimmed to fit after installing on the tail? Or is that supposed to be done now?
Next up will be shaping the rudder horn, I already have it rough cut and bent, just need to grind down the final shape and fit it to the lower rib.
This weekend I hope to get Landons help redrilling all the holes to final size and cleaning up for priming. Will see how timing goes around the house
Been snowing, and as we all know, that means it's warm enough to comfortably work out in the tent for longer periods again
Total time spent building: 88 hours
Total Cost: $8803
Airplane + consumables + project specific costs: $5867
Tools, etc.. I will keep for future projects: $2936
Landon helped me cut a piece of aluminum for the rudder leading edge and vacume form the radius before the sounds of kids in the neighborhood distracted him.
I got it fitted in place sandwiched between the spar and rear skin to drill all the pilot holes to the spar.
Got the lower rib aligned and drilled. Dinged the leading edge a little with the squared off front of the rib sliding it back and forth, but not bad enough to need to redo it all. Lesson learned though, I should have left the skin looser right there.
I need to call Roger and find out the shape and dimensions to trim the lower section of the skin, the drawings show it curved up, but looking at some recent assembly videos online it looks straight.... Is it trimmed to fit after installing on the tail? Or is that supposed to be done now?
Next up will be shaping the rudder horn, I already have it rough cut and bent, just need to grind down the final shape and fit it to the lower rib.
This weekend I hope to get Landons help redrilling all the holes to final size and cleaning up for priming. Will see how timing goes around the house
Been snowing, and as we all know, that means it's warm enough to comfortably work out in the tent for longer periods again
Total time spent building: 88 hours
Total Cost: $8803
Airplane + consumables + project specific costs: $5867
Tools, etc.. I will keep for future projects: $2936
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