04-04-2020 Horizontal Stabilizer Work
More work on the stabilizer skeleton: Stabilizer
Category: Diary
04-01-2020 Horizontal Stabilizer Skeleton
After unpacking and inventorying the parts I picked up from Estes I laid out the horizontal stabilizer skeleton. Pictures and other info here: Stabilizer Skeleton Layout
03-09-2020 Finished Parts Rack
I spent a little time this crazy-busy weekend building a parts rack so I can keep finished parts out of the way until assembly time. Just some two by fours,… Read more »
02-29-2020 CH750 STOL Rudder Done
Back on January 14th I ordered the CH750 Rudder Kit from Zenith. I’d bought the plans for the plane in November. I studied those for a while, thinking about scratch… Read more »
01-24-2020 Rudder Delivery
11:45am Looks like the Zenith CH750 rudder kit is just about to be delivered. Corvair750 airframe build is just about to start: 3:00pm 4:30pm The Zenith CH750 Rudder has arrived,… Read more »
10-21-2019 Destroying the Core to Liberate It
There are reasons that William Wynne strongly recommends trying to find a rotating core. I’ve had a rotating core in the past. And I disassembled it. It was quite usable… Read more »
09-18-2019 Engine Disassembly
Just worked on pulling the core apart. It’s difficult, lots of rust. Using multiple cans of penetrating oil. Engine serial No: T04I3RG, Heads S/N: 3856743. This identifies as a 1965-1969… Read more »
09-15-2019 Motor Wash
Fifty-plus year old Corvair motors can clean up real nice, but it does take work, and in this case considerable work. Here is the beginning of the beginning once TZero… Read more »
09-12-2019 Bringing the Core Home
Once the guys at John’s Salvage had pulled the core for me I took my garden trailer over to the junkyard. I found two guys struggling to put a chain… Read more »
09-07-2019 Pioneer Flight Museum
1:00pm After finding a core for my Corvair CH750 project out at the junkyard, where I sweated in the September heat and was scratched all over by thorny brush, I… Read more »