We started about 10:00 this morning and George and I both agreed it was uncomfortable working. So, I thought if I bought a small airconditioner, it might help cool the garage...
Anyway, after we bought the AC and installed it, we realized that it was a waste, so we opened the doors back up and sweated in the 90 degree heat.
Back to the plane, we had the top skins on, on Tuesday, but today, we put on the bottom skins. We had a couple of 'difficult' rivets but George continues to hone his rivet-taking-out skills. Then, we forgot to take off the plastic coating on one of the skins that we had intstalled. Fortunately, we just had them cleco'd, and it was only a couple of minutes to take them off.
One of the photos, today, is of George using an old soldering iron to remove the blue film from the aluminum. It's really a slick way of just removing the tape around the area you are working. We also some problems with the hinge bracket assemblies on page 17-03. One of our rivets didn't grab the sheetmetal, we had to drill that one out also.
We quit around 7:30 feeling as though we had another enjoyable and productive day. This is a really great kit to build. The instructions are really GREAT!.
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