The building of a Vans RV-14: June 2014

6/29/14

Ribs dimpled

Dimpled the ribs today, something I would have liked to do with the squeezer but I´m just tired of waiting.

6/26/14

Deburring and putting it together just for fun

Found another piece that I have not prepared yet. deburred it tonight, will probably prime it tomorrow. Then I put the skeleton together just for the fun of it.

6/25/14

Still no squeezer

Could not keep myself from riveting some parts that I would have prefered to do with the squeezer.
I did a total of 16 rivets, had to drill out and redo 2... maybe I have gotten out of practice :-/

6/23/14

Fixing a countersink cage

Today I managed to fix a countersink cage that I had messed up a few weeks before (using force instead of brains when it didn't work as expected ;) )

6/22/14

Countersinking

Yesterdays session, starting to find it hard to come up with work that does not involve riveting or dimpling. I would really like my pneumatic squeezer to arrive now!

6/19/14

I love back riveting

Still waiting for the pneumatic squeezer. I realised that there is some rivets that should be back riveted so I did those today.

6/17/14

Match drilling, deburring and countersinking.

Totally forgot about the camera today. Well, nothing new done just more of the same. Last nights priming looked good enough :D

6/16/14

But lots done, deburred the skin edges, roughed up the surface around the dimpled holes and then primed the area. I did not have enough time to let it dry up before turning the skins so I do not expect a pretty result but hopefully one that fulfills its purpose.

6/15/14

Dimpling and more dimpling

Did two sessions yesterday, in total I spent 3.5 hours in the shop. It took just about 3 hours to dimple the two stabilizer skins. The first half hour was spent on putting up another shelf, building the C-frame support and some other small tasks.

The heavier sledge gives a great result but the arm gets really tired from doing hundreds of dimples!

6/11/14

Preparing to dimple

Decided that my next step will be to dimple the stabilizer skins while waiting for the squeezer. Today I just removed the plastic cover from the inside and marked one as left and the other as right.

6/10/14

Cleanup and some deburring

Spend an hour in the garage yesterday, most of the time reorganizing boxes, cleaning up and sorting stuff but I also deburred and primed one stiffener that I missed earlier.

6/8/14

More flying than building

The last days I have spent more time flying than building. Did my MEIR PC, great fun but expensive. Then I have been to the yearly Swedish EAA fly-in.

Today I did a short session, putting up a thin shelf along one off the walls.

6/4/14

Slow progress while waiting for the squeezer

A busy week at work and I also keep the tempo low as I prefer to do the next steps with the pneumatic squeezer that I have ordered. Decided to do some work tonight: