I haven’t had much time to work on the plane the last few days because work’s heating up. We’re working 7 days a week to get the new iPhone 3.0 software out the door. I need a little break though, so I managed to get a few of the elevator parts ready for priming. Here’s the counterweight skin. I beveled the side and back edges where the main skin overlaps to prevent a bulge in the skin at this spot.
There’s not enough room between the trim spar flanges (partly visible in the upper left) to get a normal squeezer to dimple the rivet holes, so I tried the pop rivet dimple dies. I only got one done before the nail broke (expected at some point). The female portion of the die shot off with blinding speed and it took me about 5 minutes of searching the garage to find it. I think I’ll look for another way to dimple these holes.
