|
What can I say here?
Drilling, Deburring, and Dimpling..... What I did here was
labeled the stiffeners 1 thru 16 and then match drilled them all.
I also labeled the aileron skin as to whether it is right, left,
top, bottom, inboard, outboard, etc. It is not obvious to
the casual observer which is which. Right and left is easy
as they are labeled -L or -R.
So how I determined
which end was up so to speak was used the aileron spar as it only
lines up with the skin pre-punch holes one way. On the spar,
only one end has holes drilled for a nutplate. Aaaha, I have
my unique landmark. After that, getting your bearings on this
was pretty straight forward.

What do you
do after drilling? Well, the correct answer would be deburring.
Okay, done that, now it was on to dimpling. My Harbor Freight
$5 dead blow hammer is hanging in there, but as I went along, I
started seeing chunks of orange material go flying. One of
these times I am going to swing that thing and all the steel shot
is going to go everywhere. Time for a road trip to the Omaha
Harbor Freight me thinks....

One aileron
dimpling done, one more to go...

The president
of the Auburn Airport Authority stopped in where Tami works today
and was asking her how the plane was coming. Tami went into
great detail on the nastyness offered by sealing fuel tanks and
told him he was more than welcome to come and log some construction
time. Jay normally stops over on my Friday's off and checks
up on my progress. Okay Jay Hauserman, this invitation is
for you (I know you check this site from time to time).
I will
take any day of the week off work if you want to come help pound
rivets or play with tank sealant. Bring your flying partner
Steve I will find a way to put you both to work. HeHe....
:^)
|