5 hours.
\ndrilled, deburred, dimpled, primed right elevator skeleton.. Deburred and dimpled the parts of the skin I could reach with the squeezer. Got lazy and blew off the rest til the skeleton’s done. Messed up the last two rivets, sticking E-704 to E-702. I have not yet mastered the double-offset rivet set. The rivets are mushed a little sideways.. They’ll do, but they look like ass, so I’m going to drill them out and redo them. I also managed to bash the hell out of the spar when the rivet gun went for a little ride on the second-to-last rivet. Lesson: Don’t do intense craftsmanship tasks when you’re tired. Next chance I get, i’ll drill out those rivets and see if there’s some clever way to winkle a squeezer in there. If there isn’t, I need to find a better bucking bar option, or find a helper. Once I get past that little snag I’ll close up the right elevator and move on to the left one. The end of the empennage is in sight. Only took a year. At this rate I’ll have the plane done right around the time the quantum-foam zero-point-energy drive shows up as a crate motor from Pep Boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
5 hours. drilled, deburred, dimpled, primed right elevator skeleton.. Deburred and dimpled the parts of the skin I could reach with the squeezer. Got lazy and blew off the rest til the skeleton’s done. Messed up the last two rivets, sticking E-704 to E-702. I have not yet mastered the double-offset rivet set. The rivets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}