First, I had waited to match drill the skin until I had fluted my ribs. Now if you don't know what fluting is, fluting is when you bend the flanges of the rib to straighten the rib out. When the ribs are made, they tend to have some bend to them, and by shortening the length of the flange, you effectively get rid of this bend. I was waiting for the fluting pliers, and since they got here, I was able to flute the ribs.
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Rib after fluting with fluting pliers.
Once the ribs were fluted, I put the skeleton back together and put the skin on with clecos
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Look! It looks like an airplane part!
Next I did a lot of edge finishing, deburring, and dimpling.... A lot...
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Skin after dimpling.
I was still feeling awake and motivated so I kept going, and went ahead and primed the ribs.
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Primed ribs (get it..?)
And was still feeling good so I primed the spars and the spare reinforcement.
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Entire skeleton primed for the vertical stabilizer.
And then went ahead and figured might as well prime the inside of the skin too. I only primed where the metal would be touching other metal, or where I had inadvertently scratched the aluminum.
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Primed skin (inside).
At this point I really did go to bed, but it was midnight. All thats left before I can start putting it all together is some deburring on the skin!
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