Saturday, April 16, 2011

April 16th, 2011 - DRDT table, deburring

9 hours

Finished disassembly of right elevator. Removed vinyl along rivet lines of skin. Deburred main ribs, nose ribs, and skin. Built a dimpling table for the DRDT-2. Dimpled skin and ribs at specified locations.

Cleaned up a larger tip for the wood burning tool I'm using for removing vinyl. The greater mass means it doesn't cool too much from the skin/ruler. It also has a longer edge so it makes a cleaner line. Worked much better than the old tip.

Still to do:

deburr front and rear spars, countersink #40 holes on spars, countersink spar and spar doublers in specified locations