Van's RV-9A in Aurora

The Big Picture

The Big Picture
Flying! 8/28/2011

Saturday, April 4, 2009

3.5 hrs, 39 rivets
Finished riveting the flap attach bracket angles for the right wing.

Then dimpled, cleaned, and primed the aileron and flap fairings.

Dimpled the skin for both wings where the fairing attaches. Dimpling with the squeezer is hard. With the wing skins, even with #40 dimples, you have to really bear down to get the dimple flat. Then do that over 200 times. Ouch. This is the first time I thought a pneumatic squeezer was truly necessary. But I finished it with the hand squeezer. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Now each of those has to be riveted! But that's way easier than the dimpling.