olanandkate

Aside from the tank work today, I spent a little bit of time getting everything cleaned and ready for primer. Not much else to say here as most of the work was done on the tanks today.

I completely forgot to do the edge bending so that it doesn’t pillow out on the trailing edge as well as on the skin overlaps. I took the edging tool and ran it between each of the dimples. It seemed to work as I had previously done it for the Read more

I got everything for the left flap done and ready for priming. I’ll try to get some time to do it tomorrow but I have both church and a work thing happening so I might not get much opportunity.

It was tedious work but I got everything deburred for the left flap as well as countersunk. I got all of the ribs dimpled so tomorrow I will just need to complete the dimpling on the spar and the skins and then I’ll be ready to clean and prime the Read more

Luckily while I was out almost all of the parts showed up while we were gone. Surprisingly, my seat kit arrived while we were gone. I didn’t even know that was going to be coming, but it was a welcome surprise. It is missing one set of seat foam but Read more

I got all of the parts deburred for the right flap and put all of the parts together in preparation for when the replacement parts show up. I just need to drill those two holes and deburr the one nose rib and then I can get the right flap dimpled/countersunk, Read more

I got all of the ribs drilled. Luckily the holes were all final sized already. There were just the two holes on each nose rib that were non-existent that I had to drill. Unfortunately I found another issue with a rib while I was deburring it. It was cracked where Read more

I got the flaps fully assembled tonight. It took a bit because they are just so stinking long. I don’t have a table long enough for them to fit on really so I might have to figure something out before I verify they are match drilled. I can only hope Read more