Began assembly of flaps - 2 hours

 Since the most inboard flap ribs where all primed, it was time to start riveting the assembly together.I started with setting the nutplate onto the rib. Then, came setting the doubler on the rib. All in all it went pretty smoothly and I was pleased with the results.



So I wanted to get going on the flap assembly and prime the rest of the parts. One item that needs to be done is to prep and dimple the parts before priming. (With the self-etching primer, dimpling after priming has a tenancy to flake the primer off). I dove in and started dimpling, but I noticed after I was done that I had the male tank dimple die in the squeezer with the regular female die. So i changed out the male die and re-dimpled thinking it was no big deal.

Well low and behold.... I have cracks in my dimples for flap ribs #2 thru #6 both sides. Crappy! Time to order new parts.