Friday, October 25, 2013

Back to it

Finished drilling, de-burring and riveting the top skin to the leading edge.  Here are a couple of pics of the work.  I peeled back the plastic film coating the skin stock to de-burr and rivet.  Ugly but it protects the skin from work bench scratches.



And yes, my hands are a bit sore from hand squeezing the rivets.  I will continue with the manual rivet tool.  I believe there is more control over pulling rivets with a hand squeezer.  The pneumatic squeezers seem to be harder to use.  I think my hand riveting gives me more control when setting and pulling the rivets.  

Next I will flip over the leading edge and drill, de-burr and rivet the bottom.  I will run electrical wiring for lights and add a "pull-string" for any other things that I might want to run through the wing.

Thanks for checking in -

Greg.


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