Man time flies when your re-locating. Finally sold the house. Meg and I are in an apartment now in North Little Rock, AR. Its ok here, much better scenery than Dallas, but still not quite “home”. I got a hangar at KSUZ, but its been too cold to go down there and organize my junk. I’d really like to get back into building but I dont know when that will be. Oh well, I’m sure the plane isn’t going to takeoff without me. 
I’m running out of excuses to post as to why I am not making progress! Not good, I know. So instead of making up an excuse, I’ll just update you on my life and what I HAVE done…
1st and most important… My brother is cancer free. What a long battle. After losing our mom to cancer, this hit very close to home. It was an emotional drain on everyone… even more so for my brother. Someone in their early 30’s shouldn’t have to worry about cancer. 
But he fought hard. There were times when I thought he would give up. But he didn’t. He has shown us all a new side of him. And I am thankful that he is here with us today and on the road to getting his life back under his own control.
2nd… I’ve been re-modeling a good portion of the house. Replacing flooring seems to be a never-ending task. Luckily I have my girlfriend Meagan to help with it. She does way more than I give her credit for.
3rd… I HAVE done some work on the RV. The Left Aileron is complete. And I started on one of the flaps. I have it all match drilled, primed, and I’m to the point where I need to build a jig to assist in the final assembly. I will get some pics done soon, and I WILL get back out to the sweat shop soon too. Don’t lose faith in me! 
-Daniel
Well, between my brother battling cancer, family, and traveling to see him etc, I have not made much progress. But, He is now home, and doing well. This weekend, I started on the flaps…. But more on that tomorrow!!
I began assembling the left aileron this morning. I needed to find a way to dimple the leading edge holes for the counterbalance pipe. I used a spare (and warped) non-adjustable set holder from my squeezer. Worked like a charm. Used a rubber mallet to hit the set holder, which had a male 1/8 dimple die in it. I then set the CS4-4’s which layed down quite nicely. Riveting the trailing skin to the spar was kind of a pain, but only cause I have big hands and the skin made some pretty nasty marks on the tops of my hands. I tried wearing gloves, but can’t feel the rivet shop head when I do, so I went on without them…
Started on the Aileron today… Took the stiffners and cut/deburred them. When I was finished, they looked like this:
I then back-riveted the stiffeners to the skin. Then, I match drilled the reinforcement plates, brackets, ribs, spar, and skins. Deburred all of it, dimpled, and primed. Tomorrow I will start putting it all together.
Today I match drilled, deburred, primed, and riveted the Aileron Attach Brackets. Simple, yet productive.
The baffle showed up, and I got the tank put back together making sure to put proseal along the flange of the baffle. Leak tested the tank and it held! So I went ahead and attached the tank to the wing, bolted it all up, torqued, torque sealed, and ran all the screws in. I also moved the wing out of the stand and into the wing craddle I made. Im glad to finally be making progress!!
Well, after 2 attempts at getting a new baffle from Vans, I finally have one. UPS did quite a # on the one they first sent… the box was hideous. Reminded me of the scene in Ace Venture: Pet Detective where Jim Carey is pretending to be a UPS guy kicking the box around…
Man, I’m so tired of dicking with this tank that I’m going to fix it for good. I drilled out every damn rivet on the rear baffle, ruined the baffle removing it (cured proseal is nothing to joke about, the shit is tough!) So. Now I am in the process of cleaning up the mating surfaces. I’ve ordered a new baffle, and some more solid blind rivets. This time, I WILL put a thin layer of proseal along the rear baffle flange even though the directions say not to. This tank is not going to leak with I get this new baffle on… mark my words.
So, for some reason the attempt to fix my leaking rivets did not work. So I tried the Loctite 290 (Green self–wicking) and could not get it to setup and cure. Im tired of this tank. Im fixing to take drastic measures to fix this thing….
