Day 12 – Rudder Together for First Time

September 25th, 2020

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I spent a lot of time today working on getting everything clecoed together and doing match drilling. The most difficult part was that they wanted a cleco for every hole that you match drilled and in a specific order from the middle of the spar/trailing edge and out. So it was a methodical process that I wanted to make sure I got 100% right. Plus the deburring of the skins before hand and removing the blue film was tricky too.

I’ve read the arguments around leaving the blue film on versus removing it and I feel like I’m just going to remove it. I’m going to prime the interior anyways and the outside is getting painted so if there are very slight scratch marks on the skin, I’m not too concerned about it. Now I just hope some deeper scratches don’t happen.