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I started out the day thinking I was going to do a major priming session, but the weather never really cooperated. It was unseasonably warm, near 60 degrees, but it was drizzling on and off all day. I washed a bunch of parts, but thankfully didn’t do the etching step. The etching and priming steps have to be within something like a few hours of each other.
Instead I re-arranged the garage now that I know how big the fuselage is going to be. With the new arrangement, it should be easier to work on the fuse and it will have plenty of room to grow.
I did a first pass on deburring the edges of the skins with the Scotchbrite wheel. They still need more clean up.
I pulled out the firewall and started deburring the new holes in it. It also needed some countersinking along the bottom reinforcement angle.
Trying to figure out what needs to be dimpled vs. countersunk vs. left along is getting very confusing. It’s also hard to keep track of all the little tasks that need to be done. Looking over the plans, I noticed a few things that need to be drilled out for vent and fuel lines. The instructions are really worthless at this point. There are dozens of little notes on the plans, drill this, enlarge that, don’t rivet this. I thought Dan C was going overboard making a list at this point, but I ended up doing the same thing.
