Today
Angela is at work again and I debated on whether I wanted to inventory
the second Wing crate, test my alodining & priming strategy, or
work on building... I chose the latter! I've still got some time
on the Wing kit inventroy, and I know once I alodine & prime a test
piece I'm going to want to follow it up with some real parts. So,
I decided to get all the vertical stabilizer parts to a point they're
ready to be primed. There are only a few things left. Here
I'm final-drilling the VS-1015 Front Spar Doubler to the VS-1002 Front
Spar (6-4 step 1). Once done, I pulled it off and deburred the
holes in each part.
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Here
is the doubler as I'm countersinking the 4 bottom holes to accept the
dimples I'll eventually be putting in the corresponding holes in the
front spar (6-4 step 2)
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And
here I am doing the most time consuming process of the whole day...
deburring! I basically went over every single piece of the
vertical stabilizer and made sure they were completely deburred.
I was amazed at how much I had missed up until this point. I
tried a couple of different techniques, mainly to see which worked
best, but also to break up the monotony of the task (I can here some of
the guys out there snickering and mumbling under their breaths 'just
wait till the wings'). Well, I finished the day right as Angela
arived home... perfect timing! Oh yeah, I just remembered one
more thing... I still have one more thing to do before priming... we
plan to eventually mount a camera atop the vertical stabilizer.
In order to do that we're putting in some conduit that will reach up to
the fiberglass tip. We'll need to cut a hole for the conduit in
the VS-1006 Top Rib (the conduit will be routed through existing holes
in the VS-1005 & VS-1013 Nose Ribs). So, looks like that'll
be what I'm doing next time. THEN I'll get started on the priming!
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