Drillin’ some skins August 11, 2012August 11, 2012 Ed 2 Comments RV10 Build, Top Skins, Wings 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 Read more
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 Read more
Sanding skin August 14, 2012August 14, 2012 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Top Skins, Wings 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 Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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, Read more
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 Read more
Riveting the wing skins September 5, 2012September 5, 2012 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Top Skins, Wings 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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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. Read more
….and a little of that. September 23, 2012September 23, 2012 Ed 0 Comment RV10 Build, Top Skins, Wings 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 Read more