I finally buttoned up the VS! I made a few mistakes while building this but they weren’t things that couldn’t be fixed. It was a great learning experience and I’m stoked to keep going, learning, and perfecting my technique! I thought my attention to detail was pretty high, but oh Read more…
I was a little hesitant on getting the riveting done on the front spar between the upper and middle in-spar ribs. That was a tight area and I didn’t want to bend anything. Luckily I was worried for no reason. I pulled quite a few clecos out, but I did Read more…
After a hiatus with COVID and holidays, I finally got the skin rivets started. I got a few going but I ended up having my first bad rivet not too long down the road. I pressed too hard from the bucking bar and ended up with the rivet slightly high Read more…
Well, the luck finally fell on me. I got COVID so I’m spending alot of time in isolation from everyone. I spent some time doing some riveting but it’s gotten a little worse recently so I’m going to put this on hold until I get better. I got all of Read more…
October 3rd, 2020 Today was the first time getting the chance to prime. I had all of the parts from the VS, rudder, and first few steps of the HS to prime. I took some ideas from these two paint booth setups to figure out how to do my own Read more…
I spent the whole part of today finishing the dimpling on the skin. I used the close quarters dimple die for a few holes but they just didn’t turn out very well. So I used the other close quarters die that is mounted to my table to redo those. After Read more…
September 29th, 2020 The new skin arrived! And I was surprised that it had final sized holes! Sped up the work a TON. I almost got all of the dimpling done, but I’ll finish that tomorrow. I did break the small tip of the male dimple die off inside of Read more…
September 22nd, 2020 Page 6-3: Step 7-11, Page 6-4: Step 1-4 I got alot done today! I got all of the dimpling completed as well as countersinking. I need to figure out how to get the primer done tomorrow for all of the internal parts. I will need to put Read more…
September 21st, 2020 Page 6-3: Step 6 First day of skin dimpling and first day of the dimple slip mistake. Well, twice! LOL. Going to research how best to resolve this one. I might have to step up a size in rivet for one of these, but not sure on Read more…
September 19th, 2020 Page 6-3: Step 3 & 4 All of the parts were together for the first time today! I got all of the holes drilled. I did notice a mistake a made on the original drilling I did for the flange holes. I drilled them to #30 size Read more…