After it warmed up a little today (around noon) I started getting ready to prime all those horizontal (HS, elevator) parts. Here's a bunch of paint mixed up. Turns out I mixed a little much for the first side. There's about 3 cups total there (1.5 of each part). For the second side I mixed up 1 of each and that was just about right. I had just a tad left over. Keep in mind the volume is again increased by 25% when you add thinner right before spraying.
After priming the first side in the high 70 degree heat, my gloves were a little yucky. In fact they were still damp from the chemical fun yesterday. So here's my attempt at making them more pleasant. It worked pretty good, except for the very ends of the fingers.
While I was waiting for the paint to dry, I figured I could go ahead and finish up the rudder trailing edge. After removing the clecos and cleaning out the holes with a lot of proseal in them, I back-riveted according the the directions. It turned out nice and straight after driving those rivets half way. This was the worst spot with it being about 3/100" from straight.
This picture didn't turn out great, but these are the shop heads of the double-flush trailing edge rivets. They all turned out good. The only problem was that the thin skin liked to get a little wavy after I finished up all the rivets with the mushroom set. I'm not sure if it wouldn't have been a better idea to just set the rivets all the way with the back-riveting set.
I couldn't help it. I had to see how it fit. I'll have to recheck the measurments on the eye bolts, as the bottom one seemed a little long and took some pressure on the rear VS spar to get it the bolt in there. But otherwise it looked good to me! After working with all the little parts and pieces this thing seems absolutely huge.. That's an 8 foot tall ladder in the background and the table sits just shy of 3 feet tall.
And after that fun it was back to priming. It dried quite well today in the heat and low (less than 50%) humidity. It was tack free after about an hour, but I tried picking a piece up (with a paper towel to keep the finger grease off of it) and it wasn't quite good enough. I gave it about 4 hours, then flipped it over and sprayed another batch on. Here it is after the back side coat. This should be listed as a safety feature of the plane, as well. You could see this from miles away in the event of a crash...
