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Flap deburring, pushrod fixup
After giving myself a day to think about it, I decided to go ahead with the idea of filling the remaining rod ends with epoxy. The main thing that had kept me from doing this last night was worrying about … Continue reading
Right aileron, pushrod fiasco
Did all the riveting on the right aileron today. It sure goes a lot faster the second time around… I did have a heart-stopping moment while riveting the top spar-skin rivets though. As before, I had the aileron standing up … Continue reading
Finished left aileron
And once again, not the most productive day. I had held out some slim hope of priming flap components today, but that was obviously not workable, given how much prep I still have to do on that stuff. So rather … Continue reading
Left aileron riveting
Well, that was a lot of fun. Assembling the ailerons starts off deceptively easily: you attach the nose ribs to the counterweight with blind rivets. Then the nose skin goes on, followed by the trailing edge skin, and this is … Continue reading
Right flap prep
Not a lot to report tonight. Mostly it was a replay of last night – match drilling the right flap top skin, then fitting and drilling the reinforcements for the inboard end. As I expected, it went quite a bit … Continue reading
Left flap prep
Started out tonight by match drilling the left flap skin, which I’d clecoed in place before knocking off last night. To be really careful about avoiding putting a twist into the structure, I put 2×4 blocks under the flap so … Continue reading
A little priming, a lot of flap work
So my first order of business for the day was to run to the nearest Napa and buy up their entire stock of 7220 self-etch primer. I should be set on that stuff for a while now, I think. Back … Continue reading
Priming, tinkering with flaps
Didn’t get a lot done today. The main thing I wanted to get done was priming, but no sooner had I finished cleaning all the aileron parts when it started to drizzle. So I brought all the parts inside the … Continue reading
DImpling
So yeah, it’s been a few nights since I did anything. The main reason is that it’s been rather cold here, and I don’t have a heater for the garage, nor do I intend to get one. While it’d be … Continue reading
Deburring
Another day with not so much airplane stuff. I had another “little thing” to work on that I thought would take basically no time, so of course it actually took about three hours. The weather was good, but I pretty … Continue reading