6/26/2006
Pretty boring night tonight. Back to the deburring world. I started by removing the leading edges from the spars, and setting the tanks on the spars. The LE's will be assemble in the cradle.
Then I started on the rather large task of deburring all the holes in the wing skins. Trust me, I've been looking forward to this...
I removed the blue entirely because the skins will be painted anyway. Most builders only remove the blue from the rivet lines with a soldering iron, but I don't see the need when paint will be applied, and the first thing the painter will do, is scratch up that beautiful alclad with a scotchbright pad. I've also now had first hand experience with how hard it is to get the blue off after it's been sitting in the garage on the skin for five months. It left behind a thin layer of adhesive that had to be cleaned off, and came off in patches. The adhesive does come off with alcohol, but I'm sure it would be worse if I left it on until the wings were ready to go on the fuselage...a long time from now.
2.5 hours