Parts...complete - Finally some assembly work!

12/21/02 - I finished parts count today after a couple of hit and miss attempts during the evenings last week and began a little assembly work this evening.

My 'small parts board' (all 50˛´of it) before starting work:

And a final look at the untouched fuselage:

It's been just over four months since I visited the Rans factory in mid-August and placed my order, so after completing inventory I was very gratified to actually get started building my Coyote.

I began the assembly process this evening by searching for the misplaced wear plate for nearly TWO HOURS (finally located with parts that I had re-wrapped in kraft paper after I had gone through the trouble of taping over ALL the part labels in wrapped lots so NOTHING would be lost...sheesh!).

I was working on floorboard pre-fit by doing some riveting (my first attempt at this) and drilling to fit the floorboard, wear plate and rudder pedals, then called it a night.

No more work until after Christmas!  Happy holidays everyone!

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Last Update: 12/21/2002