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Began riveting the skins. Ran out of time, will finish Sunday. Adam let me do the last 10 tonight.

Double ended clecos and figure 8 masking tape. Time to rivet, but we won't get a chance until Friday.

I could not bear to think of all those labels inside there. I scrape them off with my fingernail and then use acetone. It is tedious but my son shares the task with me.

If anybody is getting complacent about which edge of the buffer goes down when polishing near the edge of the skin, don't. I now have a minor beauty tweak on the bottom of the right hand side near the tip.

Adam did the first polishing with grade C tonight. One side, 30 minutes. We have decided this is where we stop for assembly. Still has some holograms but man it looks cool.

I have bought a package of microfiber cloths. They look like terrycloth to me. Seem to work good. I finished up with F9 tonight, onto Nuvite C. That is as far as I am going prior to assembly.

Tail tips marking
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None of our rivets are 3/32. That is just the size of the pilot holes. There is a table of these rivets at A/C Spruce.
http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/h ... nrivet.php

I have been using old t shirts. Is that no good?

Thanks Mike. Still making progress. I retired one HF pad as I suspected its tiredness was generating a lot of swirly scratches. That helped. Do you guys wash your pads and rags or just chuck them?

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