The last two nights I’ve continued riveting the bottom, outboard, left wing skin. Nothing to report, other than a minor issue when I realized the j-channel (short) that was installed by the quickbuilders was not match drilled. This makes sense, because it probably needs to be match drilled through the skin and j-channel. The annoying thing is that Vans doesn’t mention match drilling the j-channel at all in the instructions, so it’s easy to miss this step. Anyway, because I already had the skin half riveted on by the time I realized these holes were not there, I was limited in options, particularly when I comes to dimpling. I match drilled the holes, reamed them to #40, then used my pop rivet dimpler to dimple through the skin. This resulted in just enough of a dimple on the j-channel.
