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Top skins (mostly) done!

September 9, 2012September 9, 2012 Ed 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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Rivet-a-thon

September 8, 2012September 9, 2012 Ed 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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Riveting the wing skins

September 5, 2012September 5, 2012 Ed 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

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All ready for riveting

September 4, 2012September 4, 2012 Ed 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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Deburring… and more dimpling!

September 3, 2012September 4, 2012 Ed 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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Dimpling… and more deburring.

September 2, 2012September 4, 2012 Ed 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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More deburring

August 23, 2012September 4, 2012 Ed 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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Lottsa deburring…

August 19, 2012September 4, 2012 Ed 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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Skin overlap sanding

August 15, 2012September 4, 2012 Ed 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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Sanding skin

August 14, 2012August 14, 2012 Ed 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

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