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Date:  9-26-2024
Number of Hours:  1.00
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Brief Description:  Prep fulelage skins

I was away for a week, visiting college friends and skydiving. Now I'm back.

I haven't tended to leave the blue plastic on parts, since most everything has to get scuffed to get painted, anyway. But I don't want to paint every INTERIOR surface of the skins, as that adds a lot of weight, and they are not subject to the weather like other parts. So I'm using the blue plastic as "masking," so I only paint where the bulkheads attach to the skins. That way there will be primer between the skins and bulkheads, where moisture and corrosion are most likely.

On the exterior, I only need to remove enough blue film to allow for deburring and dimpling. I figure there is a LOT of work do be done in and around the fuselage skins, so they are worth protecting.

I also removed all the plastic from the BOTTOM skin, as I do plan to prime paint all of the piece's interior. Water goes downhill, so the bottom skin is where moisture and crud can sit.
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Interior of right skin

Interior of right skin

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Exterior

Exterior

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