| Date |
Work |
| 24th March 2008 |
Ordered Standard Kit from Zenith. |
| 3rd September 2008 |
Picked up the kit from Port Melbourne. |
| 4th September 2008 |
Carried out an inventory check. All present and undamaged. |
| 5th September 2008 |
Organised the parts and tools for rudder assembly. |
| 6th September 2008 |
Completed the skeleton of the rudder. |
| 7th September 2008 |
Completed the rudder skins. All primed and rivetted. |
| 8th September 2008 |
Completed the right hand flap. |
| 9th September 2008 |
Completed the left hand flap. |
| 10th September 2008 |
Right hand aileron ready for deburring and primer. |
| 11th September 2008 |
Left hand aileron ready for deburring and primer. |
| 12th September 2008 |
Horizontal stabiliser skeleton ready for deburring and primer. |
| 13th September 2008 |
Started Elevator construction. |
| 14th September 2008 |
Fitted elevator trim tab and servo. Fitted control horns. Ready to debur and prime. |
| 15th September 2008 |
Primed and rivetted the right hand aileron. |
| 16th September 2008 |
Primed and rivetted the left hand aileron and the stabiliser skeleton. |
| 17th September 2008 |
Drilled and clecoed the bottom of the stabiliser skin |
| 22nd September 2008 |
Finished assembly and clecoed the horizontal stabiliser. |
| 23rd September 2008 |
Deburred and primed the stabiliser ready for rivetting. |
| 24th September 2008 |
Deburred, primed and rivetted the elevator. |
| 25th September 2008 |
Rivetted the horizontal stabliser and fitted the elevator. Tail all complete. |
| 26th September 2008 |
Started the fuse floor. Rough cut all Ls and Zs. Drilled millions of holes!!! |
| 27th September 2008 |
Completed cutting and drilling the Ls and Zs. Started the rudder hinge and messed up the bottom plate. Ordered a new one from Zenith. |
| 28th September 2008 |
Drilled everything on the fuse floor to rivet size and clecoed. |
| 29th September 2008 |
Dissasemmbled the fuse floor, deburred, primed and rivetted. Installed the access door and nut plates. Checked out the side panels. |
| 30th September 2008 |
Cut and fitted the Ls to the rear fuse side skins. |
| 1st October 2008 |
Fitted the side skins and the HT area. Drilled to size and clecoed. |
| 2nd October 2008 |
Fitted the HT btacket, top hinge, cable fairings, rear seat channel and the gear channel.All ready to debur and rivet. Started firewall. |
| 3rd October 2008 |
Firewall ready to drill to size. Laid out parts for front fuse. |
| 4th October 2008 |
Drilled the firewall to size and clecoed. Drilled and clecoed the front fuselage. |
| 5th October 2008 |
Fitted the rudder and brakes to the front fuse. Clamped the front and rear fuses, drilled to size and clecoed. Set out the center section spar. |
| 10th October 2008 |
Spent the last few days getting the engine (O-200) from the docks and sorting out the additional bits I need. |
| 11th October 2008 |
Fitted the center section spar to the fuse. I need to shift the fuse off the bench on to some trestles to continue. |
| 12th October 2008 |
Made some wooden trestles. Moved the box with all the parts in outside the garage. I set up the fuse on the trestles. Leveled everything out. |
| 13th October 2008 |
Re leveled the trestles and fuse (again and again!!!). Fitted the instrument panel and rear seat back. Fitted the rear wing fitting. Need to cut the side skins. |
| 14th October 2008 |
Fitted the rear wing spar attach brackets to the fuse panel. Cut the rear side skins to match the attach plates. |
| 15th October 2008 |
Checking out more engine bits. |
| 16th October 2008 |
Site visit to another 601xl builder. |
| 17th October 2008 |
Marked and cut the opening for the gear mounting plates. Temporary fitted the aft, middle and baggage tray bulkheads. |
| 18th October 2008 |
Fitted the gear mounting fittings, uprights and gussetts. |
| 20th October 2008 |
Fitted the front fuse L angles and clecoed the side skins to shape around the firewall. |
| 24th October 2008 |
Fitted the rear spar attach channel. |
| 27th October 2008 |
Started fitting the baggage floor. |
| 28th October 2008 |
Baggage floor fitted, still need some more holes drilled. |
| 29th October 2008 |
Painted the engine bits. |
| 1st November 2008 |
Fitted the nut plates for the spar access panels. |
| 3rd November 2008 |
Fitted the rear seat back center and torque tube bracket. |
| 7th November 2008 |
Rear frame completed with flap motor bracket fitted. |
| 8th November 2008 |
Cut and fitted the upper fuse doublers. Will need more trimming when the clecos are removed. |
| 10th November 2008 |
Temporary fit of the wing attach uprights. |
| 11th November 2008 |
Drilled the rest of the holes and fitted the baggage tray. |
| 12th November 2008 |
Fitted one half of the rear top skin. I need to drill some correct size holes to retrieve some clecos! |
| 13th November 2008 |
Retrieved some clecos and finished the other side of the rear top skin. |
| 18th November 2008 |
Having bought some more clecos I managed to get started with the front top skin. |
| 20th November 2008 |
Waited for a friend to arrive so I could drill out the baggage area for the A4 size rivets. I had to remove the top skins. |
| 22nd November 2008 |
Refitted the top skins. Fitted the front hoop and rear seat belt fittings. |
| 24th November 2008 |
Trimmed the front top skin to fit the front hoop. Cut and fitted the L angles for the antenna reinforcment. |
| 1st December 2008 |
Spent some days working out engine details and researching parts. |
| 2nd December 2008 |
Drilled the firewall/side skins and clecoed in place. Drilled and clecoed the uppper longeron doubler. |
| 4th December 2008 |
Fitted the lower side seatbelt attachment brackets. Trial fit of the seat side panels. I found the parts supplied were different from the plans. Emailed Zenith. |
| 6th December 2008 |
Zenith replied that I should use some L angle along the top of the seat base. Actually shows that in the old photo guides!!! Wonder why the change. Drilled out the top skins for A4 rivets. |
| 10th December 2008 |
I eventually managed to borrow a set of wing jigs and setup the center section spar. Drilled the holes in the floor for the spar rivets. |
| 12th December 2008 |
Drilled and fitted the spar uprights. I still need to match drill the spar attachment holes. |
| 14th December 2008 |
I checked out all the rivet holes to see if everything is to the correct size. The fuse is about ready to dissassemble, debur, prime and reassemble. |
