Brief Description: Primed VS parts, assembled VS skeleton
Washed, etched and primed parts with Stewart Systems EkoClean, EkoEtch and EkoPrime. Riveted VS skeleton together. The next steps will be to wash, etch and prime rudder and anti-servo tab parts.
We had major issues fitting rivets because our #30 drill bit was not really a #30. The bit's diameter was about 0.1190. That won't do when you need to fit rivets that are 0.1250.
We also ran into some trouble with rivets, which I think was just inexperience. We had to drill out about half of our first bunch of 10 rivets, two or three of our next batch of 10, and now we average less than one bad rivet in a bunch. Thank God for pop rivets, which self-align.
