Lindy
10/8/2006
What a great day today was! Absolutely beautiful weather, and I was out in the garage all afternoon. I got a great start on the ailerons today. Lots of pics, so here we go...
I deburred all the stiffeners on the scotchbrite wheel. This took a while since there are 32 stiffeners for the ailerons.
Then I deburred the edges of the skin, and drilled the stiffeners to the skin.
After those were drilled, all the holes were deburred, the stiffeners were dimpled and then cleaned and primed.
Then I dimpled the skin holes and taped the rivets for backriveting the stiffeners in place.
Time to rivet these things on! I LOVE backriveting!! I did have to drill two of them at the trailing edge because the skin popped up on me when the rivet was set, leaving a very proud standing rivet.
Took a break for a short while when Brit got home, but then she left for puppy class with Yeager, so I went back out to work some more. The next step is to dust off the wood break that I made for the empennage. It's been a while since this was used! The idea is to bend the trailing edge to match the radius of the full scale drawing in the plans. So it's bend a little, measure, bend a little, measure, until it's right.
Looks good, huh? I think so! At this point, I wanted to start the other aileron to keep these fairly close in construction. So I repeated the steps above to the point of getting everything ready to rivet. The rivets are not yet taped in place, but that's the next in line. Everything is deburred and dimpled, so I should get to do some more backriveting tomorrow night.
5.75 hours