Today I drilled the damaged hole to 5/32″ the removed HS405 & Deburred all parts. Manual Reference: HS/RIVET Hours: 1 Total Hours: 70.3
Month: March 2012
Today I Pinched my finger in the Pneumatic squeezer while trying to remove the rivet squeeze heads. Had a better look at the elongated hole in HS710-702-405 and sent of a pic to Van’s, so i’ll wait and see what…
After Contacting other builders & looking at other builders logs I decided to rivet with the manufactured head forwards I finished riveting HS710/HS714 to HS702, although i had to drive the rivets for HS714 with the gun as the squeezer…
Today I Riveted the HS710/714 Angles to the HS702 front spar assembly with the four AN426 (Countersunk) rivets, I wasnt happy with the shop head on the -6 rivets which was called out on the plans by van’s so i…
Today I Alumiprepped, Alodined & Primed all the Ribs, Spars & Skin Internals, this is my first attempt at this method of priming and it went much better than spray can etch-primer. Manual Reference: HS/PREP/S5 Hours: 4.5 Total Hours: 65.55
Today I -Riveted HS609PP Spar Reinforcing Bars to the HS603PP spar channels. -Riveted HS412PP & HS413PP Hinge brackets to Spar -Installed Hinge Assy. on Spar with AN3-5A Bolts, AN960-10 Washers & AN365-1032 Nuts to a torque of 20-25in/lb Manual Reference:…
Today I Finished Deburring the RH Horizontal Stabiliser (All the hole deburring is now complete) Dimpled RH Horizontal Stabiliser skin (All Dimpling now complete) Finished edge deburring Skins & Skeleton (All edge Deburring now complete) Manual Reference: HS/Deburr/S2-4 Hours: 2.9…
Today I: -Finished Dimpling LH Skin -Started Hole deburring RH Skin -Prepped & Primed HS603PP Rear Spars Manual Reference: HS/DEBURR/S2,3 Hours: 2.3 Total Hours: 54.65
Today I: -Continued Deburring of Skeleton -Finished Hole Deburring Spars -Started Hole Deburring Ribs -Finished Hole Deburring Ribs -Finished Hole Deburring of LH Skin -Dimpled Skeleton -Started Dimpling LH Skin Manual Reference: HS/DEBURR/S2 Hours: 3.3 Total Hours: 52.35