| Another BONEHEAD MOVE
Irv was looking over my site today whilst I was basking in the glow of
another fine evening of major accomplishment on the RV. When Irv
says, "Bill, Did you take the plastic off the inside of the
skin?"
Yikes! No I didn't!
So I spent the rest of the day at work worrying about how I was going
to do that with the least amount of consternation. Fortunately, when I got
home, I realized that I had a skinny-armed plastic puller (Kathryn) so I commandeered
her services. As you can see, she could easily get to the aft
pieces.
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| This bit was a little trickier but she was able to peel it all off in a
relatively short time. |
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| I had to drill out the two AN470AD4-4's that connected HS-708 (shown on
the chair) with the HS-702 front spar. Kathryn still had quite a time
getting the plastic out. She was able to use a broom handle to finally
coax it out. Then she helped me cleco it all up and put the two rivets
back and Voila! Nobody will ever know. |
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| I decided to try and salvage the mushroom set by taking one of Irv's
suggestions and removing some of the rubber so that there is no gap
between the head and the rivet. |
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| It actually worked so well that I was able to finish riveting. I had originally
planned to wait for Liz to get home from work. But this is working so well
I decided to do as much as I could. |
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| If you can squeeze, squeeze. |
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| There it is, all riveted. Looks great, don't you think? |
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| Now for the right side. The first thing is to rivet HS-707 to the top
side. (don't forget to remove the plastic this time) |
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| Now, cleco in HS-706 (don't forget to remove the plastic) and
temporarily install HS-708. (don't forget to remove the plastic) |
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| You know, now would be a good time to remove the plastic. I only removed
it from the foreword side and left the aft ones in. Not only does that
protect the aft portion of the inside of the skin, but it gives me
something to forget to remove later on. |
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| Now cleco the front spar on |
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| Pop-rivet HS-708 into place |
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| And tomorrow, do the rivets! Man I can't believe how big the thing is.
This crummy picture doesn't do it justice. |
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| I really like this color. |
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