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My skins were not sitting flush against the front spar
flanges in some areas. I'd noticed this, and was somewhat concerned,
but for some reason kept going, driven perhaps by the "get there itis" of riveting
and building. I wanted to mount this HS sucker on the wall and declare
another major piece done. Besides, I was really getting into the swing of
things. I had that riveting rhythm going and didn't want to stop.
Progress was being made. Silver clecos were flying off those skins.
Well, I'm now drilling out about 75 rivets and learning a new skill.
I'm also sending away for a chip chaser and screw-type clecos to help pull the
skin dimples into the spar countersinks. Doesn't really look all that hard to do.
If not fixed, there would be a bevy
of smoking rivets in a hundred flying hours or so, and more than likely had to
either use pop rivets after drilling them out, or build a new HS. The gap
was never more than 1/32nd. I've discovered that drilling out rivets isn't that hard. It has a
rhythm of its own. This will set me back only a day or two. Given the
time to build one of these planes, that's not all that much.
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