Monday, November 29, 2010

Elevator skinning

Did some more measurements and fitting of the skin.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Right elevator skinning

Finished (pressed) the trailing edge and set up the jig for the right elevator. Cleaned up the shop a bit and put some boat parts and all the new rivets in right.places.



Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Rivets rivets rivets

Purchased several tons of rivets from a collegue at work who used to be an aircraft mechanic. All kinds of sizes including a big case of cherrymax rivets and a very professional looking original Cherrymax hydraulic puller with 3 different extensions. Some other hardware was includd as well.