Good day, just a quick update for today as I just took delivery of some parts I need for the fuel tanks. These included a beautiful set of Newton fuel filler caps. These locking fuel caps are expensive ($250.00 CDN – each!!) but are much nicer than the fuel caps that came with the RV-4 […]
Left Tank Rear Baffle
Today I’m working on the left tank rear baffle. As these tanks I’m building are the optional 55 USG extended range fuel tanks, I’ve decided to add access panels in each of the tank bays should I need future access. The reason for this is because the tank is so long, you just can’t reach […]
Left Wing Fuel Tank Layout
Greetings, this post is going to detail the work accomplished for the left wing fuel tank. I’m not going to go into too much detail, as much of those details have previously been covered as I worked on the right tank assembly. I started off with the wooden spacer blocks used to support the fuel […]
Tank Baffle Access Panel Plates
Good Day! Today I’m working on cutting out the T-411 fuel tank access panel covers and the T-407 reinforcement rings. In my last post I laid out 14 of the access panel covers and 12 of the rings on some spare sheets of 2024-T3 0.063-inch aluminum I had. I started by cutting the T-407 reinforcement […]