RV-9A: Top Skins and Baggage Area - 5/22/2009
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 Aft Deck is primed and ready to rivet
I primed the aft deck and the two filler strips and clecoed everything in place.
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 Riveted the Aft Deck
I did just about all these rivets with my pneumatic rivet squeezer, occasionally switching yokes depending on the reach to the rivet.
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 Some rivets needed some special attention
These vertical bars interferred with the pneumatic squeezer and the regular 1/8" rivet set, so I had to switch to my LONG rivet set to get the rivets in around these bars. I cranked the pressure up to 60 lbs and went after it.
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 Time to trim the F-757 gussets
Since I'm going to have a slider canopy rather than the tip-up version, these gussets need trimming. I don't know why yet, but that's what the instructions say to do. There are measurements for the cut, but not for the radius to be cut, just a picture. So went into the kitchen and grab and armload of drinking glasses and tried each one until I found one that made a radius that looked like the drawing.
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 Not bad
They look just like the drawing.
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 Clecoed the F-721 B side rails and F-757 gussets to the fuselage
Tomorrow I will final drill everything and start working on the dimples.
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