EVERY PART ADDED BRINGS ME CLOSER TO FLYING  

 Next the rudder bars and control yoke

Bead blasted and ready to paint in the above picture

and below its sprayed with EP520 green  primer

The rudder pedal brackets, 

wooden blocks and bearing assemblies look a bit crustry but cleaned and painted up well and the bearings rolled smooth after cleaning and lube

Here is a picture of the rudder pedals cleaned up and installed 

on the  rudder bars painted in the dark blue  and the rudder cables

and return springs attached

Here are a couple of before pictures

Restoring The Control Column

 I the following 2 photos  you will see a slight difference in the columns.

The one on the left came from 108-1 sn#1500 and the one on the right is from straight 108 sn# 655

As you see there is an adjustment stop bolt on the later built sn#1500

control column - not so on the earlier version.  Since I am using the 108-1 fuselage in this build I elected to use the column that came with it.

The earlier column still has the cables attached so Iwill use it as a reference when I rig the new cables

After removing all the u-joints,pulley and bearing assemblies and beadblasting it got a good coating of EP420 green primer followed by 50 series green epoxy

I cleaned, lubed and reinstalled the bearings and installed it in the airplane with new hardware