Just a quick post since its been awhile. Life has been very hectic lately. I built my practice toolbox kit, took me about three hours. It was well worth the $25 to practice some riveting and dimpling before starting on actual airplane parts. I had a couple small mistakes riveting that I learned from, so that will be money well spent if it keeps me from making the same mistakes on the plane.
I made some good progress over Memorial day weekend, logging about 15 hrs on the plane over the course of three days. I now have everything for the horizontal spar match drilled, deburred and dimpled. Next step, is alodining and priming for the first time, which should happen tonight. Followed by setting some rivets finally! I expect it wont be long now until I have a finished airplane part, very exciting! I will post some pics in my next entry.
Quick observations...as I get used to my new tools. The pneumatic squeezer is ABSOLUTELY worth every penny spent, love the ease and consistency of this tool. The DRDT-2 is nice, but I wasnt as impressed with it, a simple C-frame would suffice for less money. Dont get me wrong, its a nice tool, well built and good quality. Its just that for the small amount of use it will get, do I really NEED it? Maybe when I do the wing skins I will change my mind? So far I have been happy with all of my tools from Isham. Although, I did have to order a back rivet plate from Spruce since Isham didnt include this in their kit. I also really like the scotch brite wheel for my bench grinder, works great for cleaning up sharp edges. The tungsten bucking bar also rocks, glad I got that as well.
All in all, things are going very well. I am really enjoying the whole process so far. I find that going out to the shop to work on the plane is like a sanctuary for me, very theraputic and relaxing. Check back with me in a year though! :)
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