I was hoping that I could start to prime today, but the weather wasn't exactly cooperative.
So I only finished dimpling the VS skin and deburred/dimpled the stiffener holes in the rudder skin. I don't really like the C-frame for dimpling. I find it hard to get nice dimples, and overall it's rater cumbersome. Hopefully I get the frame for my DRDT-2 soon, that should be much nicer. Anyhow, thanks Steve for lending me the C-frame in the meantime!
I couldn't reach the three aft holes of each stiffener in the rudder skin with the C-frame dimpler, so I used the pop rivet dimpling tool. It's an ingenious piece of equipment. The two dies have a center hole through which you can put a nail. So you put one die on the nail, push the nail through the hole in the skin, put the second die on the nail, and then compress this sandwich with the blind rivet puller.
There will be a shared container from Van's to the UK later this year, and they are collecting orders now. I will probably join and get the wings, so I spent some time today researching different options (flop tube, which fuel senders, ...).
