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Thursday, January 29, 2015

1 hr. pulling more plastic.  Found that Rib 15 Left had divots in it.  Problem?

Divots every few inches.

Close up.

Seemed to go through to the other side. On this side they felt like cuts in the metal.



Wednesday, January 28, 2015

1.75 hr's pulling wing parts out the packaging and pulling plastic off them.


Close up of left wing Rib 12.  That's an airplane part! :-)

My puppy romping through the nearly 3 feet of snow that fell yesterday. ;-)

Monday, January 26, 2015

I've updated my Tips & Hints page with more info on priming, in case you're interested in how I came to decide my priming approach.

Sunday, January 25, 2015

1 hr. putting up shelving brackets to store the flaps on the wall and starting to organize the 1st several sections of the wings I'll be working on.  Notice how the packages are nicely numbered in the order that they'll be worked on per the instructions.  Nice!


Saturday, January 24, 2015

Sunday, January 18, 2015

1 hr. cleco'ing the left flap (including drilling the same missing skin hole as found on the right flap skin).


Saturday, January 17, 2015

3.5 hrs. final rivets on ailerons and completed the right flap.

3 holes drilled into the aileron tube for each aileron.

The ailerons are done and hung up!

The flap ribs lined up next to the right flap skin.

Like Gordon I found one of the flap ribs had one hole without a matching hole in the skin.  It's the hole closest to the leading edge.

To drill the hole I cleco'ed the rib all the way down...

You can see the missing hole in this inside view.

Used my tight-fit angle drill attachment to drill it out.  I used a slightly small drill bit and then used my #30 chucking reamer bit to finish the hole.

Bottom all cleco'ed up.

Last view in the flap before I close it for good.

Top all cleco'ed.

And it's done!

Sunday, January 4, 2015

I updated my Tool List with the chucking reamer bits I have, since I consider them an essential purchase for your build.

Saturday, January 3, 2015

3 hrs. finishing the ailerons and the flap ribs.

I do my rivets in three waves: 1st wave of the ones that go right in, a second wave of ones that require a little more force and I use my home made pusher (shown) to wiggle the rivet with a little force (not too much because you don't want to damage the skin) and a third wave in which I use a chucking reamer to ream out the hole to size.  The sizes I use are:
3.2mm rivet ==> #30
4.0mm rivet ==> #20
4.8mm rivet ==> #11

Ailerons ready to start riveting.

One of the holes on the aileron skins didn't have a matching hole in the rib.  Drilled out and riveted.

Bottom of the ailerons all riveted.

Ailerons done!

Flap ribs all set to go. Many of the ribs needed fluting to get them straight.  I did that by simply sighting down the rivet holes and gently fluting until they were lined up (again by sight).  I'll find out tomorrow if doing it by sight is sufficient.

Thursday, January 1, 2015

2 hrs. today completing the aileron ribs and cleco'ing both aileron skins on.

Nice!

Close-up of one end of the left aileron.

The drawing says it's a cutaway to show the spacers, but the spacers aren't in the drawing, so it's unclear to me where they go (and is it OK to rivet the skins not knowing?...  I think it's OK..).