With the practice kit complete it's now game on.
Not sure I was happy about "modifying" the no-nose yoke to do a better job on the last 4 trailing edge rivets but the mod will make for perfect flush rivets using the squeezer.
Also not happy with the leading edge as I didn't bend in the upper edge quite enough and will probably use a smaller radius pipe for most of the rest of the project.
Finally, when doing the trailing AEX wedge on the real thing glue will come in handy. I will want to practice more on "filling in" that back-riveted side on the shop side. I'm not sure the 3-3 is quite enough to fill the dimple and even a 3.5 ( as an experiment) didn't seem to quite fill it in either so I suspect there will be more experimentation to come during the empennage.
But the back riveting came out nice. All the squeezer rivets are nice. And I learned to use the factory head on the thin sheet side when putting together multiple panels to avoid deforming the thinnest sheet of a stack of three (spar, rib, skin - factory side on the skin !).
Empennage is waiting in the garage.
My tail is reserved as C-FMBC.
Letter of intent and Response complete with MD-RA.
Membership complete (as long as Doug got my snail mail).
Game on !
Thanks for everyone valuable input thus far.
Cleko's about to start flying all over the place.
Michael B.
Markham Ontario
RV-9A
C-FMBC
Not sure I was happy about "modifying" the no-nose yoke to do a better job on the last 4 trailing edge rivets but the mod will make for perfect flush rivets using the squeezer.
Also not happy with the leading edge as I didn't bend in the upper edge quite enough and will probably use a smaller radius pipe for most of the rest of the project.
Finally, when doing the trailing AEX wedge on the real thing glue will come in handy. I will want to practice more on "filling in" that back-riveted side on the shop side. I'm not sure the 3-3 is quite enough to fill the dimple and even a 3.5 ( as an experiment) didn't seem to quite fill it in either so I suspect there will be more experimentation to come during the empennage.
But the back riveting came out nice. All the squeezer rivets are nice. And I learned to use the factory head on the thin sheet side when putting together multiple panels to avoid deforming the thinnest sheet of a stack of three (spar, rib, skin - factory side on the skin !).
Empennage is waiting in the garage.
My tail is reserved as C-FMBC.
Letter of intent and Response complete with MD-RA.
Membership complete (as long as Doug got my snail mail).
Game on !
Thanks for everyone valuable input thus far.
Cleko's about to start flying all over the place.
Michael B.
Markham Ontario
RV-9A
C-FMBC
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