Not much to report tonight. I forgot my phone so there are no pics.
I deburred the rudder skin and stiffeners. The stiffeners were also dimpled, and I setup the c-frame and began to dimple that as well. I only did a handful of dimples before it was time to fire up the grill for dinner.
More tomorrow!
Short session tonight. I had to install a hitch on our new truck, so I got to the rudder a little later than I had hoped. I clecoed and match drilled all of the stiffeners. Got everything removed and labeled as well.
On a separate note, my back riveting table was a little rough after the first coat of polyurethane. A quick and light sanding job did the trick and its smooth enough to use now. However, I do plan to repeat the process with urethane and sanding in the near future.
Many builders spend a lot of time and energy in building the perfect shop, workbench, or the like. I guess it goes with the territory. People who are crazy enough to build planes, like to be elaborate. While I love my shop, and I strive to keep the organization near perfect, I’m not always about building the ultimate item. We have a farm, and farms always have lots of scrap material. If I can find a perfectly workable solution using scrap, there is no way I’m making a trip to Home Depot and spending money to make the perfect back rivet table.
I found this particle board laying around. Its not perfect, it could scratch aluminum pretty easily, but its free and is the correct width. I was also lucky enough to find an old can of urethane.
My idea is simple. I’m going to create another table top that I can lay on top of my existing workbenches with the particle board shown. I will make it in two pieces with the plate cut out and in the middle.
I forgot to take pictures, so I’ll post them the next time I go out. But I got the wood cut, sanded the surface and applied a polyurethane to the surface. If the surface is still too rough, which I doubt, I’ll either re-sand and reapply the polyurethane, or I will lay some extra rosin paper I have laying around over top of it. I intend to anchor this to the work bench with 4 predrilled screw points, so that I can easily attach and un-attach as needed for back riveting. It might not be pretty, but its functional and with a $0 investment and only an hour of time, its the perfect solution in my book. 
