I realized after I had riveted a few rivets that I forgot to debur and dimple and countersink the upper hinges. I undid my work and got everything fixed. It then took a bit to do the riveting because the rivet sizes needed to be longer. But it is all done and ready to move forward.
I got the rest of the hinges drilled today as well as the shim dimpled and the hinges countersunk. All I have to do tomorrow is rivet all of this together and this section will be done. Should be roughly another hour.
I got all of the hinges cut and put in place with their initial drilled holes. It then took me the rest of tonight’s time to get the top hinges done because they are pretty stiff and didn’t want to conform to the tight bend. I’m going to imagine they want us to bend that to relieve the stress because once I rivet that to the fiberglass cowling it will deform it, where the body has alot more structure to hold its shape. Either way, if it doesn’t I will bend it so it doesn’t deform it.
I am needing to spend more time here for the foreseeable future studying for my commercial checkride. So I’ll still be spending time building but I’m going to have to limit it some. I got the hinges and the shims for them cut today. These will go along the firewall and will attach the cowl to the fuselage.
Brendon and I got the ~30 rivets done to finish the upper forward fuselage install. I decided to go ahead and complete the panel installation for everything as well as the seats just to see how it all fits together. I’ve also decided I’m going to do the full piano wire installation as the manual describes rather than the Skybolts. The Skybolts are expensive and it seems like according to the forums and pictures I’ve taken from different RV-10s I’ve seen at Airventure that it is a 50/50 split on piano hinge or Skybolts. So I’m just going to go with what I’ve already purchased and is in the instructions. I’ll get started with that on Monday.
I went ahead and started working on getting the upper forward fuselage attached today. I attached the 9 LP4-3 rivets but when I went to start riveting the ribs to the firewall I noticed that the middle rib was out of alignment. Come to find out the bend in the tab on the F-1044B was bent to far forward. So I had to remove those rivets, fix the bend to the proper 149 degree bend at the right point and then remount it all. Luckily it wasn’t terrible work but work I didn’t want to have to do twice. I got almost all of the rivets done alone the skin but my son is having a party today so I decided to wait for tomorrow to get him inside and buck the rivets on the inside. I just need to do the five skin rivets on the forward side and then the rib rivets so it shouldn’t take more than an hour at most.
