While waiting for a few things to happen with the leading edges (proseal to dry on a couple small tank leaks), I started on the aileron and flap gap fairings. Both sides were match drilled, deburred, dimpled and primed before clecoing back on for riveting. Riveting these on wasn’t as bad as I thought it [...]
Finished the flaps tongiht. Well, all but 12 MK-319-BS blind rivets that is. It seems I was shorted a few in the kit. Oh well, continued on and have some on order. The thing I am most relieved about is the fact that I have no more trailing edges to do! I was worried about [...]
Made more progress on the flaps. Dimpled, deburred and primed the flap skeletons. Final assembled the skeletons. and moved on to the leading edge and skins. Clecoed on the leading edge and bottom skins after making the cradles from some scrap wood laying around. Time to get the leading edges and skins riveted on. Once [...]
Spent about 8 hours so far deburring all the flap skin, spar, and rib holes. Takes forever. But, I cut my time nearly in half by picking up this deburring bit. It’s a Cogsdill Burraway bit. Kind of hard to see in this picture, but it has a spring loaded blade that deburrs the front [...]
Started the flaps this weekend. Put the skeleton together for match drilling after completing the attach brackets. Glad I built two tables so I could slide them together. The flaps are about 8’1” long. Got the top, bottom, and nose skins on for match drilling. Lots of clecos in use. I think I used up [...]
