Shop Talk

Look very closely and you will see liquid in the tubing. This is the manifold pressure line to the electronic ignition system. The fluid in...

Building an aircraft kit is a complicated undertaking and few builders succeed entirely by themselves. A builder’s primary guidance is to follow the plans...

Before I delve into this month’s project, here’s the backstory on where it came from: I started my flight training with 10 hours in...

…and now let’s hit this PC board problem out of the park. Let’s make a useful part with the full PCB program. Here’s the situation:...

Introduction to driven rivets. Learn how to judge the size of rivets you need and how to tell if you've driven them correctly.

Holes are drilled so let's get them cleaned up and ready for fasteners. Paul Dye explains the process of deburring holes and edges in...

That is what PC means, yes? No. It’s short for printed circuit. And the first attempts at making boards were actually made by spraying...

If you have ever needed to change props or spinners on your completed homebuilt, you have probably sweated out the clearance between the rear...

There is so much to learn by simply observing the handiwork of others. Some builders are just plain creative when it comes to organizing...

Blind rivet nuts, also called rivnuts, rivet nuts or insert nuts, are a clever way to add threaded bosses to thin-wall sheet metal structures...