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Not much to report. Deburring the tail cone skins. I only have the top skin left. I started out with my standard method, file, shave the burr left by the file with the deburr tool and smooth it out with some aluminum oxide. Each skin was running about 2 hours including removing the plastic. Three weekends into it and I went down and bought a 1/4 inch right angle die grinder and some 2 inch red scotch bright pads at the local auto paint store. What a difference. Cut the time down by half. I still have to be carful to make sure the rotation of the pad is always leaving the skin so I don't hook it and cause a bend but so far, so good. I'm still using the file as a first step because I want to take out the burrs left by the sheer but I do have a couple pads that look to be the next more abrasive size and may try to see how that works on an edge. I don't want to take a chance on the 0.020 skins though since they're so thin and shipping a nine foot skin won't be cheap.
No pics this time but I should be into the frames next week and then onto the aft bulkhead. Grinding away!
Not much to report. Deburring the tail cone skins. I only have the top skin left. I started out with my standard method, file, shave the burr left by the file with the deburr tool and smooth it out with some aluminum oxide. Each skin was running about 2 hours including removing the plastic. Three weekends into it and I went down and bought a 1/4 inch right angle die grinder and some 2 inch red scotch bright pads at the local auto paint store. What a difference. Cut the time down by half. I still have to be carful to make sure the rotation of the pad is always leaving the skin so I don't hook it and cause a bend but so far, so good. I'm still using the file as a first step because I want to take out the burrs left by the sheer but I do have a couple pads that look to be the next more abrasive size and may try to see how that works on an edge. I don't want to take a chance on the 0.020 skins though since they're so thin and shipping a nine foot skin won't be cheap.
No pics this time but I should be into the frames next week and then onto the aft bulkhead. Grinding away!
