Day 48 – back in the shop

With only a couple hours to spend today, I decided to get into the shop and do something productive. The Bandsaw First up, I fixed my bandsaw. It broke a few weeks ago, and it took a while to get the parts to fix it. Once they came, they sat for a while as I’ve […]

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Day 46 and 47 Attaching the skin to the horizontal stabilizer spar

With a ton of rivets to shoot, I was reflecting on what’s worked and what is still giving me trouble with attaching skins. One of my big concerns going in was that I may dent up my work with the rivet gun, or by bouncing the bucking bar around inside the stabilizer and make a […]

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Day 45 – Horizontal Stabilizer – Attach the front spar

With only dozen or two rivets, this looked like an easy task, but the job had a couple challenges. I started off with attaching to some of the in-spar nose ribs with blind rivets. This was going to be the easiest part, so I gleefully got to work. Next was the “fun” part. The rest […]

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