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Buck's RV-8
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Date: 10-16-2007
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Number of Hours: 3.20
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Brief Description: Right wing skin; right flap
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Today, I drilled out all the holes in the lower outboard wing skin and ribs, and deburred all of them. Then I removed strips of blue plastic from the outside of the wing skin along the rivet lines, in preparation for cleaning, priming and dimpling. I also removed all of the blue plastic from the inside of the skin.
I also spent some time trying to increase the curl on the top skin of the flap, so I can mount the flap on the wing. Despite attaching a long iron pipe with duct tape and applying a lot of pressure, I was not able to get enough curve so that after the hinge pins are inserted with the flap in the "90-degree down" position, the flap can be swung back up to a normal, trailing position. Right now, the flap skin interferes with the trailing edge of the wing skin. I'll try a different method next time. Not sure why I didn't encounter this issue with the left flap.
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Drilling the skin to the ribs.
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I tried to curl the top flap skin a bit more, but results were minimal. Hmmm.
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