The two rear top skins needed the excess skin removed so I used trace lines I had made to trim the overhangs on top and sides. Clamped a long scrap angle along the side skin trim lines and dremel cutoff along that line was very easy. Also dremeed along the curved top overlaps to finish sizing those two skins. Filed, scotchbrited and removed blue plastic to prepare for priming. I practiced with the Cleaveland edge roller tool to get just the right amount of grip on the edge of some scrap skin I just removed in order to have the overlap skins squeeze down nice and tight when they get riveted. Rolled the overlap edges of the real skins with some pucker factor but it turned out fine. Deburred hundreds of holes then dimpled the skins and the bulkheads and J stringers. Its ready to prime now. Spent an hour with Naptha soaked paper towels removing duct tape glue from fuselage as well as generally cleaning up the outer skins of the fuselage. Pictures later. On the external steps, Vans received them and I await Vans to weld proper length tubes on them as well as weld on a stifferner on each step outboard of the attach plate under the vertical tube where many steps have cracked over time. Might as well have that done now rather than later.
Reinstalling the aft top skins after rolling the overlap edges and dimpling.
Rolled edge with Cleaveland tool and it works really well. This is the top skin overlapping the rear
Cut off excess on bottom of the aft skins. Rolled the overlap and it came out really nice. Good tool.
