Fabric covering is going on the fuselage.

Rolling out the fabric to cut

Marie holding the roll of fabric before it goes on

The bottom piece of fabric going on.

Bottom fabric on

Left side fabric going on

Left side fabric after applying the first heat setting.

I ordered a new headliner a few months ago from Aircraft Spruce.  They called back shortly afterwards and said their ‘headliner gal’ quit and they were in the process of hiring a new one.  I received a call last Friday and they’ve hired a new person and I should get the headliner in about three months.

The current headliner has a hole in it.  It’s not repairable.  The photo doesn’t show the hole.

The Stinson manual says rudder deflection should be 18.5-19.5 degrees left or right of Center. The IPhone has a free app that works great for this. Left and right deflection for the rudder falls in the required deflection. 

Checking the tension on the trim cables. The Stinson service manual says it should be 3-7 pounds. Using a T-5 Cable tensiometer with a #1 riser it measured between 2 and 3 on both cables. Going to the chart for a T-5 that makes it about about 7. I’ll leave it there. 

A sharp observer will notice the bottom fabric is on. 

1/8” trim cables

This shows 4 but the photo wasn’t taken straight on

Manual say 3-7 pounds for the trim cables

Guessing 0-5 is 5-10 with a #1 riser, a 3 makes it about 7.

I wasn’t happy with the way the rudder trim was working. It seemed to center the rudder off some. So I loosened it all up and reset everything. Now it looks and feels much better and the rudder is centered and the pedals are centered. 

These are a bit hard to find. Both were missing. 

Realigned pulleys and now we are good to go. Cable goes right down the middle of the hole. 

Update on painting. Rudder, engine cowlings, side panels painted. Two Struts primed. Ran out of red again.