David's RV-10 Build

Just another RV-10 builders log

Month: February 2014

Primer & Assembly

Today I went to work on priming everything. This was done in 2 sessions as I broke it up for dinner.

Next I began riveting the stiffners together and the to the stringer web. My squeezer did not fit so I had to use the rivet gun. I can definitely tell I still have a bunch of work on my rivet gun skills. After that I mounted the assembly to the front spar.

After I riveted everything to the spar I mounted the cradles I made and set the skins in them. I cleco’d the nose ribs in and called it a night. I will have help available tomorrow to help me rivet the skins

More Dimpling & Countersinking

Today I finished dimpling the skins and the ribs. After that I followed it up with countersinking the spars and the stiffeners. I got bored at one point in time so I counted the holes. 952. 952 holes. 952 clecos in and out, 952 holes to drill, debur, dimple or counter sink. Good times. Tomorrow as long as nothing comes up, I will be priming and maybe start some riveting.

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