Walking back out to the garage tonight, I walked past the cardboard box in which the replacement skins were shipped, and saw this.
There were no dollars in this box…
…which was a throwback an early post 8 years ago when I took this picture:
That was a long time ago.
Anyway, after finishing the stiffener salvaging from the right half of the rudder, I peeled open the skins, and took this self-portrait.
So handsome.
Anyway, an hour later, I had liberated all 16 stiffeners from the rudder WITHOUT any damage.
- This was quite the commplishment.
in total, 105 more rivets drilled out from the right skin, and 116 total rivets drilled from the left skin. (221 drilled out total).
I still have some spar rivets to drill out before starting real construction again, but I’m on my way.
(BTW, my drilled out percentage is now 8.78%. ugh.)
Andrew's RV-7 Build Log 