More progress on the vertical stabilizer. I riveted the VS skeleton then riveted nutplates to the skin. It was a little tricky getting the rivets to go properly and had to remove a few at first. I was able to get the right placement if the main squeeze in order to get nice flag rivets and the rest seemed to go in well.
I decided to try and leave the plastic on the skins for now. I rounded off the tip of my soldering iron and using a straight edge was able to remove just the plastic around where the rivets will go. The plane will be roughened up for paint anyways, but I would like to keep it from getting too scratched up during the build.
I clecoed the VS skin to the skeleton. It is all ready to rivet.
Time: 2.5 hours.
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| VS skeleton |
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| VS skeleton |
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| VS skin nutplate |
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| VS skeleton clecoed and ready for riveting |
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