Smitty's RV-9A from Van's Aircraft

RV-9A: Project Entry

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Riveted on the VA-112 drain flange
What a mess, or I guess I should have said "you should have seen the mess!". I mixed up another 22 cc batch of the black goo and applied a layer of it on to the back of the drain flange. Then I clecoed the flange on to the tank skin. I pushed the rivets into the holes one at a time and squeezed them in place with my 4 inch yoke and hand sqeezer. The excess black goo shot out everywhere, kind of like walking barefoot in the cow pasture, with the undetected cow patties oozing out between your toes. I cleaned off the excess proseal on the outside of the tank with a multitude of paper towels with laquer thinner on them. I made sure that the papers towel didn't have too much laquer thinner on them. I didn't want to mess up the proseal under the flange. Yuck!

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