Friday, September 19, 2014

Just messing around



I ran the stiffeners for the practice project through the 3M wheel . Dimpled the skins and then got to work on back riveting. Everything went very well. I find back riveting very easy. I ran my back rivet set through the 3M wheel on the one side so that it wouldn't interfere with the radius on the stiffener. I tested out different methods of tape on the 470 rivets. I tried hockey shin tape, duct tape, etc. The best method I found was black gorilla tape in the rivet set. Works great and is super tough!! I'm waiting for some more tools to arrive so I can finish off the practice project.
I'm still waiting for a reply to my letter of intent so I can officially start my build.  So I started to read through the plans for the horizontal and vertical stabilizers.




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