Back on the ribs tonight. Since I have finished up the control surfaces for the wings, and I am still needing to build my wing stands, the only thing I can work on is the holes for my conduit and pitot and AOA plumbing in the wing ribs. I have … Continue reading
Not much to report tonight. I spent about 45 minutes riveting the bottom of the right aileron. All I had left to do was squeeze a few rivets on the ribs and then pull the blind rivets where the skins meet the spar. It starts by putting the aileron, bottom … Continue reading
This work session is the exact same as riveting the left aileron. So I won’t go into much detail. Feel free to browse on over to my blog entry for the left aileron here as well as here to get all the details. It starts out by riveting the nose ribs … Continue reading
I ended up scoring a decent little pneumatic rivet puller / gun from Harbor Freight for $25 after the coupon during their sale. This will save me some labor on ALL those blind rivets along the bottom of the ailerons. Lets put it to use! I don’t like very much … Continue reading
Time to start riveting up the ailerons! I gathered up the parts for the left aileron and studied over the drawings and instructions, and began final assembly and riveting on this guy. We start out by riveting the A-704 nose ribs to the A-409 counterbalance pipe, and then slipping this … Continue reading
Even a little progress is some progress.. right? I didn’t get a whole lot done tonight, but I did get over a small hump that I have been mulling over: The messed up leading edge rivet. A few posts back I ended up damaging the left leading edge skin due … Continue reading
I didn’t get much accomplished tonight. What has gotten me stuck is just how to deburr the inside of the A-409 counterbalance pipe for the aileron leading edge. But I did get a little progress made, I’ll detail that below. I started out by pulling all the parts out of … Continue reading
I’m back in town after being gone for almost a week, and finally getting to do a little work done on he airplane. In the last session, I alodine’d some parts, so they’d be ready to prime when I got back. I am still using the old method of scuffing … Continue reading
A LOT accomplished tonight. I managed to get all the aileron parts dimpled, the counterbalance pipe countersunk, and even alodined a few of the small parts. I started off by setting up my DRDT-2 dimpler so I could make quick work of the skins. This is pretty much what this … Continue reading
Time to get down to the dirty work: Deburring, and edge finishing. This will be a short post, but it was jam packed with work. First I deburred all the holes in both aileron parts (skins, ribs, spar, etc). Then, I deburred all the lightening holes in the spar, of … Continue reading