Deburring and Dimpling HS

This weekend was pretty productive. I was able to finish deburring all of the HS parts and moved on to dimpling the skins. So far I have the right HS skin dimpled. I've got the left skin and the understructure left to dimple. When I'm finished with that, the HS will be ready for the priming process. Looking forward to getting to the point of pounding some rivets!

After deburring, I removed strips of vinyl where the rivets will go. This will protect the rest of the skin from scratches.

This is the inside of the skin, with the vinyl removed and deburring done. It hurt me inside a little bit to go scratching up these beautiful skins, but it had to be done. Deburring of the holes on the interior of the skin was just done with 400-grit sandpaper. 

Here you can see both the left and right HS skins next to each other. Gives some perspective of the final size of the tail.

Dimpling the skins with the DRDT-2 dimpler. This thing is awesome and pretty easy to use. A second set of hands would definitely be helpful though!

A close-up of the dimples. They came out very nice and crisp.

A close-up of the back side of the dimples

The bottom side of the right HS skin all dimpled