One of the downfalls of building an airplane in your garage is the dust and aluminum shavings that seem to get on everything. Well for the 10 I decided to limit that as much as possible so I have partitioned off the smaller bay of the garage with a temporary insulated wall. On that wall I have built a small "paint station" that I can use to spray primer on the parts that need it. The neat part of the new paint station is that I have added a ducted fan to the base of it and am venting the exhaust outside. Hopefully this will keep the overspray dust down a bit better than what I did with the 9.
Anyway, on with some pictures...
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| This is the new temporary wall from the larger part of the garage. |
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| This little hole in the wall is where the ducted fan exhaust goes through the new temporary wall. I took this picture before I actually built the rest of the paint station. |
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| My little vent elbow that I will use to duct the overspray vent outdoors. |
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| A little hard to see in this picture but this is my new priming station. I have the plans sitting on the screen top in this picture and I have not put up the sloping lower front panel but the entire top part can be collapsed against the wall if I need the extra space in the room. |
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| A look from the garage door end of the room. You can see the door to the new work space here. |
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| another shot of the temporary wall and you can see the paint station in the back corner of the room. |
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| The rudder just after I finished final drilling all the necessary holes. I had started to remove the cleco's and realized I haven't been taking may pictures so I stopped to "capture the moment" |
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| After final drilling of the rudder it was time to disassemble and debur. |
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| Countersinking the AEX wedge that connects the two trailing edges of the rudder. I'm using my drill press to make sure the countersinks are perpendicular. |
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| Here you can see my "jig" that I created to ensure the wedge was held at the correct angle while I did the countersinking. |
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| Another view of the widge jig. The holes are there to give the countersink bit guide pin a place to go below the wedge during the countersinking process. |
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| Back to the DRDT2 dimpling tool. Here I'm dimpling the rudder skins. This tool is so much faster and easier than the way I did it on the 9 not to mention the dimples are higher quality and more consistent. Well worth the money I paid for it. |
