| Hours today: | 1.4 | Hours wings: | 164.5 | Hours total: | 259.2 |
| Rivets today: | 0 | Rivets wings: | 3406 | Rivets total: | 5485 |
Roughened, dimpled and degreased the leading edge skin that contains the landing light. Not included in the time logged here, I made a tool to dimple the holes that hold the screws that hold on the landing light cover:
Small dimpling tool.
Compared to the dimpling tool that I made to use with the manual rivet tool, this doesn’t have a shaft. I couldn’t turn on in the space available, and I need a reasonable sized hole through the middle to line up the punch and die.
Tool with machine screw through it.
My plan was to simply place the die and punch either side of the sheet metal, then close them together by running a bolt (machine screw) through them into a nut. It worked pretty well with the test piece of aluminium sheet that I tried it on.
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