I wrapped up the year with a full day of work on the airplane.
We started out by match drilling the skin holes on the right elevator.
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We then deburred and dimpled the trim access panel parts. I also dimpled the tabs on the nutplates and set them aside for later.
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Then comes the step where you take everything apart for deburring. Yay.
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Every part was carefully marked to make sure that we will put them back together in the same places later.
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Once everything was disassembled I started working on the skins. I removed the bluing along the rivet lines and removed the bluing entirely from the inside of the skins.
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I then deburred the edges of all of the skins with a vixen file and some emery cloth.
Next up was deburring all of the holes in the skins. One at a time. Both sides. I completed three of the four skins and called it quits for the year.