1.6 Hours -
I didn’t spend a lot of time on the plane today…just enough to get some of the aileron spar components ready for riveting.
I disassembled the spars, reinforcement plates, and aileron brackets. Then, deburred all of the holes. After that, I moved on to edge deburring. Deburring the edges of the spars is what took most of my time today. The long edges were easy enough to get with the big Scotchbrite wheel, but I had to use a small Scotchbrite wheel on my die grinder for all of the lightening holes.
Once everything was deburred, I scuffed the parts where I wanted to prime, then cleaned and primed them. I only primed the reinforcement plates and their corresponding mating surface on the spars. I figured this was the only area where moisture could get trapped, so it’s the only area on the spar that is being primed.
Priming the reinforcement plates that go on the end of the spars.
I only primed the ends of the spars since this is where the reinforcement plates sit.
