Saturday, July 29, 2017

One line One month

I was trying to get at least one page of instructions done per month.
Got the fuel tanks done in two months and that was about two pages of instructions.
Than I ran into the next step:" Deburr, Dimple (prime) main skins"
Really simple sentence, but took me a month.:-)






But this is summer and I am  distracted. Here is my typical view during my Saturday morning runs.
Hard to get into build during the beautiful summer days. But I am making progress, skins are done and am working on countersinking the spar to accept the skins.

I never installed the flush rivets for the ribs that go under the tank skins, so am doing that now. I wish I would have done this when the ribs were riveted to the spars, and before the skins were matched drilled. So now I have to c-sink the ribs holes under the tank to flush, and the ones for the skin to 0.007" deeper per the plans. I will probably squeeze these rivets right after I dab primer on all the spar c-sink holes; this primer may not be required, but I am going to do it anyway, at least for the main spar.
Working on stall warning now. And hope to get the top main skins on before the end of August; although the beach looks mighty inviting.......