Well, after spending 10 or so hours in and out of the (very cold) garage finishing the wood floors today, I felt like working on the airplane, but I felt like being WARM, so I thought some devinyling was in order.
I grabbed the next big part in the airplane parts room, and got to work on the kitchen table (sorry girlfriend!).
Because of all the rivet and screw holes and all the cris-crossing patterns, it took me an hour for this whole skin (not the usual 30 minutes per wing skin…those were easy).
Also, I know that the instructions say to just pull out all the vinyl from the insides of the tank, but I figure I’ll let the vinyl act as tape lines for the proseal I’ll be using to seal the ribs to the skin on the inside.
Here's the inside of the right tank after devinyling.
The top side.
And the bottom.
1.0 hour of devinyling fun tonight.
Andrew's RV-7 Build Log 