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
Author: Ed
Rivet-a-thon
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
Riveting the wing skins
All ready for riveting
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
Deburring… and more dimpling!
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,
Dimpling… and more deburring.
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
More deburring
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
Lottsa deburring…
Colleen and I managed to get the deburring done on the wing skins for one of the wings. There are a lot of holes.
Skin overlap sanding
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.
