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.

Slowly -

It's been a few weeks.  Busy and not able to get into a work session without interruption.  I want to spend a couple of hours finishing the leading edge skinning and getting the remaining wing structure together.  I had to order some more .020 6061-T6 aluminum.  Should be here in a week or so.   Also spent some time cleaning up the work shop.  It is getting a bit cluttered.  Only myself to blame.

Will be getting back to it tomorrow and I will report progress.

Thanks for checking in.

Greg.