Wing Kit

Drilling, Deburring, and Dimpling Aileron Skins

 

08/22/04, 4 hrs

 

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.... :^)

 

         


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