Okay, the pictures suck today, but two interesting things did happen.

First, McMaster Carr sent me the “18-8 Stainless Steel Socket Head Screw, 8-32 Thread Size, 1/2″ Long, Fully Threaded, Packs of 100” I ordered.

Bill Repucci, from maybe 20 years ago, wrote “The other tip I have is to order a bunch of stainless 8-32 ½” cap screws from McMaster-Carr and use them to secure the cover plate for your fuel tanks. Once the wings are installed, I doubt you could get the pan head screws off but the cap screws will be easy to remove. See this picture:”

Then he attached this picture.

So of course I copied him. Just like I did on the RV-7.

The majority of the build time tonight was actually preloading HUNDREDS of rivets into the top of the right wing skin in preparation for top skin riveting tomorrow.

It was all going swimmingly, until I DROPPED THE RIVETS.

It’s a right of passage for every builder to do this, but I was hoping that since it happened on the RV-7 SEVENTEEN years ago, I would avoid it happening again. No such luck.

(For the record, Joe spilled the rivets. Maybe that’s why I still got bit tonight.)

1.5 hours. No rivets tonight.