Flaps

Flaps are coming along nicely! After work today we got right to work on D&D (deburring and dimpling). Turns out deburring all the ribs, spacers, and skins was about a 3 hour task, even with the EZ-Burrs. It seemed to go by fairly quickly though, and then I dimpled the four top and bottom skins using my trusty ol' MikeyJ-2000. Brought a heap of ribs (42 in total) into the living room with the hand squeezer and got to work dimpling while we watched a short marathon of Criminal Minds on Netflix. Before I knew it, I had a full "done" pile and an empty "to-do" pile... amazing how quick it goes when you're relaxed watching TV! So, in a burst of motivation I went back into the garage to fetch the spars and decided to dimple them on the couch too. Since they are around 8 feet long, it made for some interesting and awkward positioning on the couch. I think Sarah almost got cracked in the head at least twice with a swinging spar. She was a good sport about it though :-)

Anyway, no pics from tonight, but we now have a pile of parts to build both flaps that are basically ready for primer. We'll see if maybe I can sneak that task in over lunch tomorrow and be ready for assembly tomorrow night!