Winding down for the year...

Lazy fall day, unseasonably warm in the day but the nights are in the 40s and it takes a while for the hangar to warm up in the morning. Good thing is that the gear legs were dry when I got home, and have been reinstalled.

Continuing to reinstall the elevator reversing horns, the boom tube bushing has a lip to keep it from being pushed into the tube. However, this lip requires the plastic spacers to be drilled out a little bit, since the lip on the bushing is not as thick as the spacer I didn't want to drill the whole thing out.

The solution was a step drill bit enlarging only part of the hole to 0.5".

The manual calls for a plastic cap over each end of the elevator pushrod, I used Delrin rod inserts both to block water and to keep the pushrod from being crushed when the nut is tightened.

A couple photos of the transom all sealed up. Like I said, the 3M 5200 is messy stuff.

The artificial feel system for the rudders. ;-) Springs keep tension in the rudder/tailwheel cables.

And fitting the tailwheel required trimming the spacers down just a little. 

Some general pics of the tailwheel system with aluminum pulley and pinned nuts. 

The tailwheel retract cable is not secured inside the bracket and can pop off the pulley, so the bracket should be drilled for a SS cotter pin to keep that from happening.

I thought I'd be further along this year than I was, but I'm also happy with the progress I made. Over the winter I'll be working on the electrical system and planning for a push next year. There are now 4 SeaReys being built in the Puget Sound area, a fifth will be delivered next week, one more being rebuilt, not to mention a couple over the border in BC. I don't want to be left out of the fun.