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<\/a>May 24 – final stages of jigging and match drilling complete.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Although I have not posted in a few weeks, much activity has been occurring on the horizontal stabilizer.\u00a0 Three long weekends in a row have gone into drilling, scuffing, washing, brightening, alodine, priming and assembly. May 24 – final stages of jigging and match drilling complete. May 25 – Rita, the …<\/span> Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rv-10-build-project","category-section-8-horizontal-stabilizer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>May 25 – Rita, the not-yet Riveter. Here she is helping me dimple the HS skins with the DRDT-2 machine.<\/p>\n<\/a>May 26 – mixing the DP401LF catalyst with the DP40LF priming for the HS skins.\u00a0 First the skins were washed with Pre-kote, then dried in the shed.<\/p>\n<\/a>May 26 – suited and ready for skin priming.\u00a0 Not much can be seen inside the shed once priming starts.<\/p>\n<\/a>May 31 – dunk tank extended to 12′ to hold the HS spars.<\/p>\n<\/a>May 31 – brightening underway. This was the first time I used the garage for corrosion treatments.<\/p>\n<\/a>May 31 – another view of the extended dunk tank.\u00a0 One of the spars is bubbling in the phosphoric acid brightener on the right, a rinse tank is on the left.<\/p>\n<\/a>May 31 – the alodine is on the right, rinse on the left.<\/p>\n<\/a>June 7 – all parts are primed and ready for riveting.<\/p>\n<\/a>June 7 – Rich came over to help rivet on hinges, attachment brackets, spar doublers, caps and stringers. We squeezed as many rivets as possible, only had to buck 6 rivets on the custom made attachment brackets.\u00a0 Turns out the bracket, spar flange, and doubler combination is too thick for my Main Squeeze 3″ yoke (takes a 4-10<\/p>\n<\/a>June 8 – the internal parts of the stingers and ribs must be riveted together before attaching the skins, because afterwards there is no access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"