David's RV-10 Build

The first thing I did this morning was to prime the skins. I didn’t have room on the cardboard last night so I decided to wait till today. I used some rivet tape to make my lines to cover the proseal area from the primer.  After priming, I riveted the trim cover reenforcement plate to the skins. I put the nut plates on last night but I believe I forgot to document that.

Next involved back riveting the rib halves to the skin not too much excitement here.

Next I followed it up with riveting of the rear spar to the skin with the larger of the 2 rib halves. I also installed the shear clips and gussets at the same time.

Right around this time I ran home for dinner.

Today I began by finishing any dimpling & coutersinking that I had to do.  That really didn’t take as long as I had thought it would. Next  I grabbed the skins and began to mark where the PVC foam blocks would go. After marking the areas with a sharpie I grabbed my die grinder and a scotch brite wheel and made a rough pass with it to give the proseal a place to stick.

Now that that was complete, I began cleaning and rinsing every.. single.. piece… I elected to break this up into 2 sections. I did all the “small” pieces first. After they were final rinsed from the acid etch and dried. I began priming them. While those parts were drying I started working on the spars & skins.  Due to their size, I used the office shower to clean those up. For the spars & skins I decided to try skipping the acid etch step as more and more people are saying it is a waste with self etching primer. I may keep at it for the small stuff though. After the spars & small parts dried I began some assembly.

I riveted the tip rib assemblies, as well as the reinforcement plates & nut plates on the front spars. I finished off the night with riveting the Root ribs, Spars, and elevator horns together.

I love when I get to put the hardware in. I always feel like I just accomplished something major. Even if its something as small as a bushing.