20 September 2008
Priming, riveting elevator
10.0 hours
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| Priming parts (Full size) The boring part is begun, deburring, dimpling, cleaning and priming Here are some of the ready to go parts |
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| More primed parts (Full size) Some more of the elevator parts ready to be put together |
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| Priming the skin (Full size) I held the skin open with tape, and primed it with the rattle can |
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| Riveting spar doublers (Full size) The first step in final assembly is to rivet the spar doublers onto the spar. Used the squeezer on these rivets. |
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| Riveted counterbalance ribs together (Full size) Next step is to rivet the outer ribs together. Also done with the squeezer |
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| Riveting counterbalance skin (Full size) The counterbalance skin is cleco'd onto the ribs, and riveted on. The squeezer works for all these rivets also. |
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| Riveting horn (Full size) This doesn't show it, but first I riveted the horn on upside-down. Grrr. I then drilled out all the rivets and redid it. Came out fine. I even checked the layout several times before riveting it on upside down, and still got it wrong. No harm done I guess. |
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