I didn’t get any pictures of the boring skin prep, but I deburred both sides of EVERY hole in the skin, dimpled, then used some scotchrbrite to suff up the skin prior to priming.
Cheap (bulk) scotchbrite.
I am using the blue vinyl here to act as a mask for the internal priming.
Here is the vertical stabilizer skin with the blue vinyl removed. Just priming the mating surfaces.
Next, a little forward spar riveting. I clecloed every third hole.
Next, I shot and bucked some of the skin rivets. Here’s the first section done.
Now all of the first sides rivets are done.
Most of the internal structure is now riveted to the skin. yay!1.5 hours up to the rear spar, then another 0.5 hours riveting the lower and upper ribs, which I didn’t get a picture of.
