ROLO-FLAIR TOOL AND SOME BOELUBE I have stated many times that I am a strong believer in having the right tools for the job. This post continues that thread. The tools I am referencing here are the Parker Rolo-Flair tool and a good lubricant I use – Boelube. I was… Read More »I have a flair for flaring
LABEL ALL OF YOUR PARTS I have always taken special care to make sure that all of my parts are labeled correctly. On priming day, I laid out paper mats and wrote the part numbers next to each piece. This way, I could keep track of each and every part,… Read More »Dimple everything
PRIMING PREP Today was the kind of day that I have been looking forward to for a while. I have spent more days away from my plane than with it recently and am glad to begin trying to turn the tide on that. Well, minus vacation next week of course,… Read More »Major elevator work day
I had an excellent time away over a super long Labor Day weekend getaway with some wonderful people. It certainly made it easier to be away from the RV (as easy as that can be of course). I took an overnight red eye to get home and was pretty jet… Read More »Welcome home riveting hour (100th hour!)
Not a whole ton of work done this evening, and even less work done on exciting and unique titles for posts related to dimpling. But I’m sure both will come together someday in a miraculous way. Already rambling – off to a bad start here. I was not able to… Read More »Awww… look at those dimples!
If you haven’t locked on to a theme yet, stick with me, it’ll happen. What comes after priming? Dimpling of course! With Anne still being out of town and plenty of personal enthusiasm towards watching the eclipse today, I was only able to put a little bit of time into… Read More »Dimpling elevator parts
Once again, not a terrifyingly exciting evening, but one that definitely saw some progress. I was able to spend several hours out just dimpling and getting all of the parts ready to go for final assembly. I also spent a good deal of time just reading the manual making sure… Read More »Dimpling the horizontal stabilizer
You’ll get the play on words here in just a minute – but know that I’m chuckling to myself because of my brilliant pun. Anne is rolling her eyes. I am getting more and more comfortable with each minor process in the overall build (drilling, deburring, dimpling, riveting…). I started… Read More »“Back” to riveting the rudder
I have to start by glowing once more about how well the priming turned out. Working with all these primed parts has been so easy and I am glad that I waited to dimple until after the priming. I can now see how everyone says it is more difficult to… Read More »Dimples and first rivets