More Sinus Work

Most recent work has involved getting the rudder cables, from the pedals to the rear, connected. This may not sound like a long job, but it certainly has been. There are four cables (from the two sets of pedals) that need to be double-swaged and connected with cables that go on to the rudder, as will be shown in another post, as soon as I work up the photos.

This shows the center part of the cockpit, where the two control sticks will attach to the black metal bar seen through the square openings. To get that metal bar to fit in, I had to do what's shown below:

This is a view from holding the camera down through one of those square openings and making the photo blind. No flash here. Except with a mirror, I've not been able to see what the camera photographed. I had to Dremel away a lot of material shown here on the upper portion of the indentation in the center post. This allowed the metal bar to fit into place. It would not fit before. I did the work blind, by holding the Dremel tool where near where it needed to be, turning it on, and cutting some of the material away. Then I would feel the notch to see if I thought it was big enough, and it finally was. The metal bar, seen here on the right, partly installed, finally fit. The opening through which light is coming is the right hand square opening seen above. I was unable to get the mirror into this space while also using the Dremel tool (an electric rotary tool into which I can install any of several cutting bits).

This is the tail of the Sinus, where the rudder will mount. The slotted rod is the elevator pushrod which will mount to the lever that's beside it. The bolts with red paint around their tops are bolts that hold part of the mechanism inside the vertical fin. The red paint was applied with a paint applicator (a felt tip pen with paint in it). The paint will provide a quick way of looking to see whether a bolt has moved during aircraft inspections.

Inside the fuselage: This is where I've been working in recent sessions. It's rather uncomfortable. I've been connecting the two rudder cables which emerge from the two white lengths of tubing to two cables each that run from each of the four pedals.