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Category: Top Skins

Drillin’ some skins

August 11, 2012August 11, 2012 Ed 2 Comments RV10 Build, Top Skins, Wings
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Today, with assistance from my lovely helper Colleen, we get the top wing skins clecoed in place and fully match drilled. I don’t know how

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More work on the wing skins

August 12, 2012August 13, 2012 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Top Skins, Wings

Today, I got the inner wing skin countersunk where called out in the plans. These are places where the outer skin is backed up by

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Sanding skin

August 14, 2012August 14, 2012 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Top Skins, Wings
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The top of the RV10 is actually made up of a number of different skins. A large outer skin, a smaller inner skin, the fuel

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Skin overlap sanding

August 15, 2012September 4, 2012 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Top Skins, Wings

Today was just like the last time I worked on the skins: sanding down the edges where they overlap… this time, on the other wing.

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Lottsa deburring…

August 19, 2012September 4, 2012 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Top Skins, Wings

Colleen and I managed to get the deburring done on the wing skins for one of the wings. There are a lot of holes.

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More deburring

August 23, 2012September 4, 2012 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Top Skins, Wings

We got the rest of the deburring finished on the left wing. Since the skins were already done, this consisted of all the ribs, the

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Dimpling… and more deburring.

September 2, 2012September 4, 2012 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Top Skins, Wings

After all the deburring, we though we’d get some dimpling done to mix things up a bit. I got all the dimpling done on the

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Deburring… and more dimpling!

September 3, 2012September 4, 2012 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Top Skins, Wings

Are you seeing a pattern here? Well, after today, it’ll be on to something different… assembly! After Colleen and I finished deburring the skins, j-channel,

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All ready for riveting

September 4, 2012September 4, 2012 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Top Skins, Wings

Tonight was a quick two hour night. I got the garage cleaned up so I could tell which way was up, then Colleen and I

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Riveting the wing skins

September 5, 2012September 5, 2012 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Top Skins, Wings
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My lovely rivet buddy Colleen and I got started on riveting the top wing skins on to the wing. I used a new riveting technique

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Rivet-a-thon

September 8, 2012September 9, 2012 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Top Skins, Wings

Colleen and I did some serious riveting today. We got all the rivets of the left outer skin done, and the rivets of the right

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Top skins (mostly) done!

September 9, 2012September 9, 2012 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Top Skins, Wings

Today, we finished up riveting the top wing skins. All that was left was the outer right skin. We still need to rivet the rear

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Top skin riveting

September 15, 2012September 15, 2012 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Top Skins, Wings

I also got the top skin riveted to the rear spar tonight. The new 4″ no hole yoke on the squeezer worked like a charm.

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….and a little of that.

September 23, 2012September 23, 2012 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Top Skins, Wings
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Yup. Two posts in dedicated to the same day. I’m breaking today into two posts because I worked on two totally different sections of the

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