This week I have limited time to work in the garage, but was able to make some progress. While I wasn’t able to get video of it, I was able to prime the Spar,trailing edge, and the replacement striker plate this week using my Primer Pistol. This was small enough job that I didn’t want to use the HPLV gun and it only took about a 1.5 film canisters to cover.
The timelapse picks up with me starting to dimple all the ribs, spar, and skins. I mentioned in my Training kit that I picked up a set of the Cleaveland Tool SubStructure Dimple dies. I used these on all my ribs and spars. I’ll say that I am very happy with the results and how easy it is to rivet everything together as the parts sit flush. I honestly haven’t tried to do everything with the standard die set so take my feedback with a grain of salt. Dimpling all the parts was straightforward using the squeezer and DRDT-2. The directions are already starting to be “less detailed” and don’t remind you what holes you should or shouldn’t dimple. Lots of doublechecking the plans and sometimes flipping ahead to make sure you understand what you need to do.
I then start to rivet the nutplate onto the Rudder Horn. I think I spent more time drilling out rivets on the nut-plate than it took me to actually rivet it together. Hey, it happens. No harm / no foul. Just drill it out and install it again. I’m getting much more comfortable with riveting and drilling out rivets now.
Out of all the work I did this week, my favorite is back riveting. It’s just so easy, neat and very little chance of making an error that I absolutely loved it.
Completed everything up to 7-8: Step 1 in the plans and hope to get through 7-10 by the end of the week.