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Old 05-05-2014, 08:08 PM
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I had hoped to keep the aircraft in bare metal AA retrojet paint scheme for one year before painting it ( I'm not nearly a neat/clean freak enough to own a bare metal plane over the long term.....). I guess I can stop worrying about that now....
An old time IA told me that everyone starts out thinking, "man this thing is going to look good polished" and ends up thinking "I wonder what color of paint would look good on this thing?".

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Old 05-05-2014, 08:31 PM
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I have NEVER done that. Except the very first time I tried it! Luckily it was on the Vans practice tool box. I am so scared of messing up my skins that I have not been riveting outside the tool box. Somehow, I think I will mess up....I feel your pain man
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Old 05-05-2014, 10:15 PM
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Thanks for the love guys,

I can't wait to come back and tell you about the half dozen or so half moon dents that will happen when I try to keep going at some point in the future when tired and then the rivet gun slips off the head... The fact that I can predict it would make you THINK I could prevent it, but the envelope ain't spandex, and sooner or later I will probably over stretch it again <sigh>

Onward tomorrow. My cherry is broke, and my kit ain't perfect anymore....hopefully I'm the only one who will be able to tell...
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Old 05-06-2014, 08:13 AM
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Though I would see what Vans has to say, I did something similar in the middle of the Vertical stab for the 9 I was building. I was dimpling so quickly with the c-frame that I didn't have one of the holes lined up properly and wham.... Something like what you see there.

I 'fixed' it by putting two new rivets one each to the left and right of the original hole spaced evenly between the others. You can then fill the botched hole when painting and most likely it won't be noticed. Let's see what others have to say. A vertical stab skin though is not a huge amount of money in the grand scheme of things.
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Been there.
This is a good fix. Make sure you follow the edge spacing rule. There should be plenty of space to put two more in and abandon the bad one.
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Old 05-06-2014, 10:33 AM
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Just to confirm what everyone has said, email came back from vans saying deburr and build on....
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Old 05-06-2014, 11:38 AM
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Just to confirm what everyone has said, email came back from vans saying deburr and build on....
I wish I could do that. Sometimes my OCD becomes CDO and it won't let me.
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Old 05-06-2014, 03:29 PM
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I have my own exciting brand of ADD and OCD mixed together!
You should see me go off on a tangent, sometimes for 100s of miles!



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I wish I could do that. Sometimes my OCD becomes CDO and it won't let me.
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