Next
came the dimpling of the skin. This was my first experience with
the DRDT-2 on a skin... actually, my first experience dimpling a skin,
period! I liked the idea I had seen on some other sites about
laying the skins on some foam to protect it while dimpling so I set up
my tables to accomodate this (sorry, I was in a hurry tonight so no
pictures). The foam did a wonderful job, as I expected, of
protecting the skin from scratches. However, one thing that
surprised me was that the foam caught the edges of the blue nylon film
where I had cut the strips out for the rivets (I was dimpling with the
male die on the bottom so this put the nylon on the foam... don't
ask... I was experimenting...) Anyway, I didn't realize it at the
time, but here are the results... ... nothing major, just thought I'd
mention it for consideration. Another learning
experience... Well, we're off to Sun-N-Fun this weekend, so no
building. It's our first trip there so we're pretty
excited!! I'm especially excited about checking out the
glass-panel vendors, as one of them will definitely be going in our
bird!! Plus, we're going to try like crazy to get a demo ride in
the factory RV-10. We'll post some pics when we get back too!
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