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I really cooked through some stuff today, despite painting primer (just regular old primer–not aircraft primer) on one of the garage walls. The 50 year old wallboard was just too dingy. A coat of white paint really did wonders.
I deburred the edges of all of the ribs. I got that down to a pretty good system on the Scotch-brite wheel. Next was the fluting on the ribs so they would lay flat.
I then assembled the left HS skeleton and drilled out the holes attaching the spars and ribs together. I then put on the skin. That is way cool. It really looks like an airplane part. Even Julie and Adele were impressed.
I drilled out all of the holes for the skin, carefully lining up HS-404 and HS-405. Thanks to Phil Anderton’s site, I avoided a potential pit fall with the drilling of the HS-405 ribs. I trimmed a little too much off of the HS-404 ribs, but was able to move the holes a little bit and still maintain the correct edge spacing on the HS-404 tab.
I also drilled the remaining holes on HS-710 and 714.
I disassembled everything and prepared to attack the right side. My daughter helped me out a little bit. I’ve been having trouble finding tasks that are safe enough for her to handle at 7 years old. I gave her some clecos to take out with the pneumatic cleco tool. She handled that really well.