10th
May
2007
A cleco here, a cleco there…
Hours: 2 | Posted in Horiz. StabilizerPut the rear spars & doubler together and drilled. Which is to say, reamed. I bought into the talk about reamers being better than drills for enlarging the pre-punched holes, and was able to pick up a #30 and #40 reamer with my purchase of secondhand tools. Happy with the results so far, and my cheapo air drill seems to run fairly true, which I was concerned about. Not that I don’t still lust after that Sioux 1412 3600-rpm palm drill…
Also put the hinge brackets into place and drilled them out. I was surprised how easily the steel machined. I think part of it is that I’ve been used to working with old dull bits, and this whole “sharp” thing is sort of a novelty to me.
