Again, have I mentioned how much I despise scuffing parts?? I'm pretty sure I've made that abundantly clear in this builder log. Alas waiting for me were all of the internal right side parts, some big, some little but all needing to be prepped for paint. So 3 straight hours of scuffing, cleaning, scuffing some more, cleaning a little more and then finally dimpling the holes that needed to be dimpled prior to paint. The dimpling only took about 30 minutes, the DRDT2 makes quick work of dimpling, there were a few spots that needed a hand squeezer to finish off the part but the work, although tedious at times, is done and now the parts are ready for final cleaning and priming.

One painted, they will be mocked back up again with clecos and the final riveting will begin. The whole horizontal stab skeleton is a bit intimidating from a riveting point of view as I've done very little 'real' riveting up until this point having used a squeezer as much as possible. That will also be the case here but I need to really practice setting rivets with the gun and bucking bar before tackling this part.

So after paint, I will be spending a while just practicing with the rivet gun and getting comfortable again.