Stjohn's RV-7

4 hours.
Got the right seat finished, everything seems fine, so I started in on the aft top skin, the forward one. This thing is a bit difficult to work with, especially when you forget to drill out all the temp rivets the QB kit has for you. I spent some quality time with the soldering iron and removed the blue plastic along the lines of holes, then clecoed it on to the fuse. It looks like this will be the second part of this project where I will need some help riveting. I can’t reach deep enough in there to buck all the rivets, and since I forgot to deburr the edges before I started messing with it, even evaluating the process is risky. But I’m not about to take all those damned clecoes out. I’ll drill it, then unhook it and deburr everything right before I dimple it.
I still have a couple of details to finish on the flap actuator, like drilling out a slot for the servo bolt on one of the covers, and drilling the actuator arm to final size for bolting to the rod-end bearing on the end of the servo arm, but I was just so geeked to see everything bolted into place, I didn’t feel like unbolting everything again to finish up.. Maybe I’ll do that tomorrow morning.