Aft fuselage

Drilled and reamed the holes for the bolts, and a few leftovers on the formers and angles.

Fuselage

Only deburring, dimpling, priming and riveting left :-)
- and four holes for the bolts also need to be drilled.

Fuselage

Some more drilling

Fuselage

More fuselage skins

Fuselage

Things are stating to shape up. Have to cleco together the stuff to find out how it fits together.

Fuselage

Countersunk all the holes for the bottom skin.

Fuselage

Drilled more holes for bolts and rivets on the aft fuselage. The bottom skin is supposed to be riveted on late in the build process, but I have to dimple and countersink, and that is easiest to do when the fuselage can be laid upside down.

The predrilled holes in the elevator trim mechanism does not fit the predrilled holes in the fuselage. This means there will be too mane holes drilled, so I decided to leave out three of the holes.

Fuselage

More bits and pieces for the fuselage.

Fuselage stuff

Purchased a Bosch PBD 40 bench drill press. It is one of those tools I will regret I didn't purchase years ago. Really nice tool, compact and easy to operate.

Then I loaned these reamers from the lab mechanical shop at work. One adjustabe 11-12 mm and one 8 mm.

Getting perfectly perpendicular and exact sized holes for the bushings became a piece of cake.

Dimples/countersunk and primed the mating surfaces of the fuselage bits and pieces.