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Date:  8-19-2009
Number of Hours:  7.50
Manual Reference:  P 17-03 Steps 1-5
Brief Description:  Skin top surface of right wing

Also includes Page 17-04 Steps 1-2.

Yet another wet day - ideal! Skinning proceeded as for the left wing. No particular problems, in fact everything seemed to go just that bit smoother on this wing. But see below!

Picture 1 just shows work in progress.

Near the end I noticed that I had managed to muddle up the rivets and had put a countersink rivet in, by mistake. See picture 2 - at the crossroads.

Worse, in an attempt to drill it out I selected completely the wrong rivet, so I then had to drill out the rivet I had originally intended. So now I had two holes to fill. Picture 3.

I tried to catch the drilled out rivet shop head on some sticky tape I had pushed through the wing lightening holes (it was near one end). However, having selected the wrong rivet, that plan didn't work out, so the shop head is free to drift around in the wing. Fortunately, there's no moving parts in there to get jammed (especially as I won't be doing aerobatics) so I guess it doesn't matter.
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Right wing - work in progress

Right wing - work in progress

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Wrong rivet

Wrong rivet

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Wrong rivet drilled out

Wrong rivet drilled out

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