05 – Miscellaneous

Hrs: 4

Paint floor 2

The primer was dry so it’s time to spray the dark gray color.
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Hrs: 3

Paint floor 1

Before spraying the dark gray color on the floor a layer of primer was required.
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Hrs: 4

Test interior paint

Before finishing the rudder pedals it’s better to paint the floor. When the pedals with bushing are in it will be difficult to mask that area.
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Hrs: 6

Priming many small parts causing a lot of over-spray, the filter was clogged and needed replacement. And since good lighting is important I installed some additional lights.
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Hrs: 4

Rivnut tool / rudder box

I was not happy with the smaller and larger hand tools for setting rivnuts and during the build of the tanks I had some spinning rivnuts which is annoying to fix. So time for improvement.
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Hrs: 12

Rivet filling with SuperFil

It took a while before I received the SuperFil from a vendor in the UK due Corona and Brexit.
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Hrs: 6

Filling 3.2 mm rivets left wing

After filling the 4 mm rivets on the top side of both wings I continued with the 3.2 mm rivets of the left wing.
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Rivet shear / tensile test

While sanding the excess resin with micro from the rivet heads you have to be careful to not remove any aluminium from the rivet.
Removing just a tiny bit is done easily, I measured on a test rivet about 0.1/0.2 mm.
This doesn’t seem to be much but will it impact the strength of the rivet?
For educational purposes I did some shear and tensile tests with the 3.2 and 4.0 mm rivets.
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