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Left leading edge

Deburred and dimpled left leading edge and ribs. Prepped for priming. I found a hole in my paint can cover so went to Harbor Freight looking for a replacement…no luck.

Right leading edge

Peeled blue plastic, dimpled ribs and skin for right leading edge. Scotch-brited and used spot sprayer to spray Akzo-Nobel primer on inner skin and ribs.

Right leading edge ready for riveting.

On to leading edges…

While waiting for the new cork gaskets and K1000-3 platenuts, I moved the tanks off my worktable and replaced them with the leading edges. Since they’re built off-wing, I can work on them. They’ve been match-drilled and deburred, next comes dimpling.

My dimple table hasn’t been used in many many months, so it needed a little [...]

More match drilling

Match drilled right tank skin – airport

Right skin work

Match drilled right tank skin – airport

Deplasticizing and deburring

Finished deplasticing skins, deburred top left inboard skin – airport