Looks like I am going to build most of my plane twice!!! ugh?.
So I made a very dumb mistake and was forced to drill out a few rivets on R901-L-1, the left rudder skin. I managed to have the drill hole go wide of the rivet, and elongated the hold jaggedly about 1/16 (into the dimple area).
I don't want to just cover it up - I don't think I can anyway. And I haven't got all the stiffeners on that skin, so I'm going to just order a new one?.
The question I have is - can it be drilled as needed without messing up the things it was final drilled to before? That would be the spar and the TE. I'm pretty sure that on the TE I can just use my angle guide and ream the holes down the TE and it will line up fine without having it cleco'd to the AEX and potentially messing up the AEX countersinks with the drill.
I'm also thinking that if I ream the holes that go with the spar that the spacing will line up okay there too. But I'm pretty sure I can final drill the skin to the spar without messing up the spar dimples with the sheet cleco'd on - so I was going to do just that.
Any thoughts?
So I made a very dumb mistake and was forced to drill out a few rivets on R901-L-1, the left rudder skin. I managed to have the drill hole go wide of the rivet, and elongated the hold jaggedly about 1/16 (into the dimple area).
I don't want to just cover it up - I don't think I can anyway. And I haven't got all the stiffeners on that skin, so I'm going to just order a new one?.
The question I have is - can it be drilled as needed without messing up the things it was final drilled to before? That would be the spar and the TE. I'm pretty sure that on the TE I can just use my angle guide and ream the holes down the TE and it will line up fine without having it cleco'd to the AEX and potentially messing up the AEX countersinks with the drill.
I'm also thinking that if I ream the holes that go with the spar that the spacing will line up okay there too. But I'm pretty sure I can final drill the skin to the spar without messing up the spar dimples with the sheet cleco'd on - so I was going to do just that.
Any thoughts?