STI Farm Fox Build Log

[SomeDay7]

Harlan, Thanks for posting and keeping us up to date. That same truck dropped off my cobra build in 2015. I will be only a couple of months behind you so the info is great. Jim

[Kitfox Pilot]

Harlan, Thanks for posting and keeping us up to date. That same truck dropped off my cobra build in 2015. I will be only a couple of months behind you so the info is great. Jim

You will probably pass me on your build, we are coming into our busy season but will try to do a little when we can but winter will be here before you know it.
A couple of cobra pics would be ok too..

I got the rotisseries completed today and got the wings mobile.

[Kitfox Pilot]

Thanks guys that's what I needed to know. I just had no idea what the inspector would expect to see. Thanks

[Delta Whisky]

Harlan - another great source is: https://inspire.eaa.org/2020/01/02/w...-your-project/

Looks like you are off to a great start. Keep on keeping on.

[Kitfox Pilot]

Harlan - another great source is: https://inspire.eaa.org/2020/01/02/w...-your-project/

Looks like you are off to a great start. Keep on keeping on.

I have looked at your build log link and its really nice. Is that what you will show the inspector or do you us a written log?

[Delta Whisky]

I have looked at your build log link and its really nice. Is that what you will show the inspector or do you us a written log?

The program, besides producing the web site also produces a pdf or html output that can be handed to the FAA or DAR (paper or thumb drive) if s/he is interested in it. I'm also dating and signing the builder's manual and can use it with my pictures as well. (But I sign and date the manual as much as a check list of tasks accomplished and open items for my own use as for any FAA reason.)

[jiott]

I signed and dated each checkoff page in the build manual. I also kept a simple spiral notebook logging each day I worked on it and "roughly" how many hours. Also snapped digital photos of each major project stage and tried to show myself in some of them. The final inspection and application for a repairman's certificate went without a hitch.

[Shadowrider]

I just took pictures with my phone along the way. I signed and dated as I completed task, but as you will find out many task don't apply. When applying for my repairman I referred to my phone more than I did the manual. When the inspector went through the manual I just wrote NA on a lot because with the STI, you have separate instructions for the wings, and lots of blank pages with the options you get. Inspector was fine with that because when he saw all the pictures on my phone that was proof enough for him. I didn't log any hours because honestly I didn't want to know.

[jrevens]

If you treat the reamers right, you will probably only need one... that's all I needed. Reamers should always be used well lubricated with oil. However, when 4130 chrome moly is welded and cooled fairly rapidly (I'm thinking of the tubes welded to the frames for the hinge bushings, with a MIG rig) it can get very hard, and that can be tough on a reamer. A cobalt reamer would be nice.

[Kitfox Pilot]

Flox question. Just finished gluing my steedster tail up and instructions said to add flox to stiffen the glue up. I never found any info to know how much to add so I added a little and all worked well. Is there a mixing ratio for flox when it is suppose to be added to the mix?