Brendon was going to be doing band stuff tonight so I decided to take the night off with him. I’ll have to skip tomorrow night with him too since we have church tomorrow. I decided to go ahead with the next section and start straightening and fluting the ribs. It usually takes a bit of time for that anyways and it is something I can do alone. I finished all of the ones on the right and still have the ones on the left to finish.
I made an exception today and riveted some more with Brendon. He’s going to be busy this week and I wanted to get as much as I could done. Just have the small wing walk section to finish and then the entire row along the main spar.
Brendon and I got a few hours tonight to work on the plane. Got the middle portion of the outboard skin done.
Brendon and I had a good amount of time today to finish the right wing. Good to have that done and out of the way to finish the left side. I also got the nut plates put on this morning while he was at band.
Brendon and I finally got a good 3 hours of time to get the rivets on the ribs, rear spar, and skin done. All we have to do tomorrow is rivet the main spar and then rivet the nut plates on the onboard edge.
I decided to go ahead and prep the left wing as much as I could for riveting. I got most of it ready. I then decided to do some of the riveting on the right wing that I could solo.
Brendon was busy with more band stuff tonight so I prepped the rest of the rivets in the skin so we could just keep going on riveting. I also got all of the rivets set that I could on the top row.
I got the wings 100% level across the board so they were not twisted. I then tried to do what the instructions said to do with back riveting but it was just not working very well. I have an offset back rivet set but it just does not transfer the energy like a straight set does. So I went back to the way I knew would work which was putting rivets in each hole and then taping them over. I then rivetted them like normal. I didn’t get too much time to do that today as my son was spending alot of the day today trying to get some driving time under his belt. He is taking his driver’s test here in a week and he needs to have a total of 50 hours. We’re almost there, which took away from him being able to help me with the wing today.
I finished the inventory for the finish and QB fuse kit yesterday. I got it all squared away and stored and I took some of the hardware to bring it home and sort it with the rest of the hardware I have.
I got a few hours today to get the parts deburred (I forgot a few holes that I could see pretty clearly were not clean) and then I primed all of the parts. After priming I put the skins back on the wings for their final fitting and I’ll start riveting them tomorrow. I think I finally got the gun settings down right for the spray gun. I added a pressure regulator to the gun itself now and set it to 32 psi when I had the trigger pulled. I also set the flow to the highest flow it could go with. It laid down pretty quickly this time and it was also very smooth.
