Van's RV-9A in Aurora

The Big Picture

The Big Picture
Flying! 8/28/2011

Monday, December 8, 2008

1.1 hrs
Dimpled all leading edge ribs. Then dimpled the left wing main ribs.
Finished by dimpling the stringers. Missed drilling one hole on the inboard stringer, so got out the skin, clecoed, and match drilled. Then deburred and dimpled. The inboard skin is next up anyways.

It suddenly occurred to me while dimpling the ribs how to eliminate the fisheyes. Just stick a piece of tape to the male die, so that the tape is touching the work, not the outer rim of the die. It worked great, and seems to last for quite a few dimpling operations.