Brief Description: Great kit to learn cause and effects.
After finally getting the garage workshop finished, I started with the control surface training kit. You learn a lot about handling metal, riveting, reading plans, making construction aids, What I learned today: 1. Use more hand pressure pushing on the rivet gun than I did pushing on the air drill. So that is how smilies are made. 2. When using the C-frame dimple tool, be sure to have your drilled hole squarely on the male dimple die before you use your hammer to make the dimple. Otherwise your original drilled hole gets enlarged somewhat because you let the aluminum sheet rise off the male dimple. 3. Don't slide your aluminum sheet around trying to get the male dimple to poke through the hole. When you turn it over to check your dimple work, you find a little squiggly line that matches your efforts to find the hole earlier. 4. Dimples and rivets are difficult to make in the narrow areas towards the ends of control surfaces. I will have to get used to maing or getting special tools. 5. It is easy to mistakenly place a ''left'' side part on a ''right'' side workpiece. Watch for that and double check before you proceed to match-drill holes. Make sure alignment holes in ribs match where they are shown on the plans. Is the hole towards the top of the rib or bottom of the rib? 6. Don't drill your assembled part while it is sitting suspended on top of the clecoed underside. Get the surface that needs drilling to sit flush on the workbench. The work goes faster and results are more accurate. 7. Get a couple drills and keep them ready with different bits or bit lengths. Constantly changing becomes aggravating afterwhile. 8. Get a multiple airline gismo and have drill and rivet gun both connected at the same time. You get aggravated disconnecting the drill to connect the rivet gun then disconnect for the drill, then disconnect for the rivet gun, then.... get the picture? Two or three airlines with tools connected... 9. When you rivet two or three pieces together be sure the pieces stay touching together
