Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Thu Jan 23, 2014 11:33 pm

Steve,
I only caught it because you did and then told me! Thanks a bunch. I have drilled up the right side and it looks good.
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Waiex 191 N191YX
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:31 am

I drilled up the left side tonight. A couple holes were bad and I took them to #21. After taking out some clecos found a few more bad holes. Trying to decide if I should just take them all up to #21 on both sides or do it piecemeal. I will sleep on that decision.
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Poplar Grove, IL C77
Waiex 191 N191YX
Taildragger, Aerovee, acro ailerons
dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby sonex892 » Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:29 pm

Brian
Have you considered using solid oops rivets. With the exception of the floors and internals I solid flush riveted the entire fuselage. Most of it can be back riveted and done on a bench. I used pop rivets on the wings. Only the odd sonex builder notices the difference.
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Mon Jan 27, 2014 9:00 pm

Steve,
I have lots of rivets, an470ad5 included plus I have a 5X gun. I am the bucking bar king as well. The bigger head size does not bother me a bit. It may cost me the grand champion at Oshkosh but it will never come apart that way.
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Poplar Grove, IL C77
Waiex 191 N191YX
Taildragger, Aerovee, acro ailerons
dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Tue Jan 28, 2014 12:00 am

I took the whole left lower longeron up to #21. The right side looks ok, trying to decide if I want to do the same for symmetry or just use pops. Hard to see both sides at the same time anyway.
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Poplar Grove, IL C77
Waiex 191 N191YX
Taildragger, Aerovee, acro ailerons
dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Mon Feb 10, 2014 12:34 am

We had a cold run through our house. Plus work was busy and I ran out if propane. That is why I have been quiet lately.
Here is my first pair of splice plates mounted. I used my ruler with the T square attachment. I either marked the length the plate was supposed to stick out on the ruler, or I marked the distance up from the edge of the skin on the T square part.
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Trial fit of a scrap angle #1
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Trial fit of a scrap angle #2
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Poplar Grove, IL C77
Waiex 191 N191YX
Taildragger, Aerovee, acro ailerons
dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Mon Feb 10, 2014 10:38 pm

We are polishing the right skin while I do the splice plates on the left. We had two polishers going.
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Poplar Grove, IL C77
Waiex 191 N191YX
Taildragger, Aerovee, acro ailerons
dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Rynoth » Mon Feb 10, 2014 11:08 pm

Man, I sure wish I had 2 polishers going...
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby daleandee » Tue Feb 11, 2014 12:01 am

Rynoth wrote:Man, I sure wish I had 2 polishers going...


Yep ... and two people using them that didn't have the name "Dale" - :D

Gonna look great though!

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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Wed Feb 12, 2014 12:20 am

Left hand top splice plates. I had no issues fitting them. I still need to polish them.
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Poplar Grove, IL C77
Waiex 191 N191YX
Taildragger, Aerovee, acro ailerons
dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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