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Did battle with the paint gun. I decided to prime a practice part, the screw gauge that Van’s supplied, and the rear spar bearing. I washed the parts with Dawn, sprayed them with the cleaner/etch, let them sit a few minutes, and then scrubbed them with Scotch-brite. It worked really well, and the etch didn’t smell bad at all. I was expecting it to really stink. I then mixed up the paint. I had to thin it down a little bit with distilled water in order to get it to 20-25 seconds on the drip test. For some reason, the spray gun didn’t want to work. I messed with it for a while, but it just wasn’t spraying. I gave up and cleaned out the gun. In that process, I found out that it sprays water just fine. So I tried the paint again. This time it worked fine. I still need to perfect my painting skills. I think I got it on a little too thick at the beginning, because it kind of beaded up. Overall, the parts turned out well.
I then riveted the rear spar bearing bracket together. The pictures show a rivet in the pneumatic squeezer before and after squeezing. And then the final assembly. My first riveted part. Woohoo!
I spent the rest of the evening drilling out the right HS skeleton and clecoing together the right HS.
