I have not had a cold in the last .....almost 8 Years!!....until this week. I worked Monday morning and came home to a runny nose and sneezing. I was in bed for the next 3 days. I hate being sick. Thank God I have a wonderful wife to take care of me (Thanx Wendy). I felt better this morning, so I decided I had better get my 3rd class medical exam done before the end of the month. I was going to do it earlier this week, but...... Anyhow I did the exam and passed....yeah! I can fly for 2 more years. I also went looking for a new car/truck today (more to come on that). I fired up the compressor about 3:30 this afternoon and started to deburr all of the parts for the 2 ailerons. I used the drill press with the small scotch-brite wheels to do the skin, nose skins, spars, ribs, nose ribs and the small plates. I still need to do some small file work, but most of it is done. I next dressed up the ends of the counterbalace pipes. These are made of stainless steel, so I used a grinding wheel to smooth out the ends, then finished it with the scoth-brite wheel on the bench grinder. Came out nice! I also deburred the holes in the pipe. Finally I dimpled the nose skins and some of the flat skins with the rivet squeezer. Tomorrow I will finish up the dimpling and do the countersinking on the spars and trailing edge pieces.
Nose rib after deburring and dimpling
Counterbalace pipe end deburred
Dimpling leading edge skin with the rivet squeezer...
