We got a lot of work done this weekend. Kelly spent most of her time removing clecos and taping rivets in place, and I followed shooting the rivets. It’s amazing how quickly the work goes when there’s two working on …
Finally finished riveting the forward spar to the skins. I also showed Kelly how to rivet; she seems like a natural.…
We flipped the HS around so we could rivet the top. In less than 2 hours, I got the top left skin completely riveted to the forward spar. This definitely goes faster with practice.…
Unfortunately, I haven’t had much time to work recently. I did get a couple hours in today, and now both sides of the bottom skin are completely riveted to the forward spar.…
Finished riveting the nose ribs to the forward spar, except for the inboard nose rib on each side–too difficult to access in the cradle. I’ll do those after everything else on the HS is complete, as the plans suggest.
Next, …
Kelly left town today, so I spent most of the day working. First up: rivet the HS nose ribs to the skins–a huge pain. A little searching online revealed that this is widely regarded as one of the more difficult …
All we did tonight is put the HS skins in the cradle and cleco the nose ribs in place. We found it worked best to cleco the nose ribs to one side of the skin, put the skin in the …
Tonight we finished riveting the inspar ribs to the front spar (aside from the innermost and outermost). Next up: riveting the nose ribs to the skins.…
With all the HS pieces deburred, dimpled, and primed, we’re finally getting to the HS assembly steps. Since we purchased this kit partially-complete, this also happened to be my first time riveting since the class I took back in April. …
The kit’s previous owner had already primed the front spar, inspar ribs, stringers, and stringer web. That left the nose ribs, rear spar, and skins. We’re prepping by scuffing with ScotchBrite and cleaning with acetone. For primer, we’re using SEM …