Brief Description: Match drill rear spar to doubler
I completed the match drilling of the V.S. rudder attach brackets, rear spar and rear spar doubler. It's pretty striaghtforward and I didn't run into any problems. After completing match drilling I disassembled the parts and starting deburring.
The doubler is pretty thick and the edge has a rough surface with nasty burrs on it from the cutting process. My first pass was with the Scotchbright grinding wheel, but it was obvious I really needed to dig into those edges with a decent sized hand file.
I'm still feeling my way around trying to find the most effective way to do these various operations. I have learned that there is no one right way to do something, so I'm trying them all and I'll figure it out as I go along.
I didn't finish the deburring of all the edges, but I did get a chance to finally use my 1 in. Scotchbright wheel on my hand drill to smooth out the lightening holes on the doubler. It was working great until the battery died, so I'll finish the deburring on those holes another day.
I'm rapidly approaching the point where I need to prime, but I don't have any of the equipement or a spray booth. I spent the majority of this Thanksgiving holiday on SolidWorks designing a collapsable spray booth, which I'll cover in detail in my next post.
Rear spar cleco'ed and match drilled. Yes that's my laundry waiting for the washer to finish.
Deburring the rear spar doubler. It's a thick (0.125 in.) part and needs lots of work.
