After breakfast at the cafe today Dad and I had to take care of a couple of errands but once they were done we headed over to Smitty's to pick up some of the two part epoxy primer so we could start getting some more parts primed! Though today's weather wasn't quite good enough to use it.
Dad and I began working on the inboard fuel tank ribs to get the ball rolling with them again. We started by cutting the access hole in the rib with the flycutter. This was my first time using this tool. Like everyone says, make sure you have the part you're cutting clamped down extremely good. This thing could take a part and throw it accross the room in a second I'm sure. We changed the belt on the drill press for this and set it to the lowest setting, this helped a bit with controlling this beast. After the ribs were cut we clamped the access plates to them and match drilled the holes. Once
the plate is drilled the ring goes on next and the platenut holes get match drilled. We realized that there was a bit of rib left inside the ring on each so Dad cleaned them up with the Dremel and got them perfectly equal with the ring. We deburred everything and decided to call it a day, it looks like we'll just have to wait for some nice weather so we can get some priming done! Until then we're in limbo.
After breakfast at the cafe today Dad and I had to take care of a couple of errands but once they were done we headed over to Smitty's to pick up some of the two part epoxy primer so we could start getting some more parts primed! Though today's weather wasn't quite good enough to use it.
Dad and I began working on the inboard fuel tank ribs to get the ball rolling with them again. We started by cutting the access hole in the rib with the flycutter. This was my first time using this tool. Like everyone says, make sure you have the part you're cutting clamped down extremely good. This thing could take a part and throw it accross the room in a second I'm sure. We changed the belt on the drill press for this and set it to the lowest setting, this helped a bit with controlling this beast. After the ribs were cut we clamped the access plates to them and match drilled the holes. Once
the plate is drilled the ring goes on next and the platenut holes get match drilled. We realized that there was a bit of rib left inside the ring on each so Dad cleaned them up with the Dremel and got them perfectly equal with the ring. We deburred everything and decided to call it a day, it looks like we'll just have to wait for some nice weather so we can get some priming done! Until then we're in limbo.
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