Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

[kevinh]

I just 'mostly' fit my right wingtip and saw the parts I'll need to fixup. I hated the fiberglass work when building my RV and I think I'll hate it just as much on my Waiex. :roll:

[Bryan Cotton]

Root fairing halfway clecoed on:

No pic but I am about 40% updrilled to #30.

[Bryan Cotton]

Aaaaaand.... it's back apart for deburr and polish.

[Bryan Cotton]

We deburred the skeleton tonight. 5 man-hours.

[Bryan Cotton]

Deburring does not make for exciting pictures. This is how I set up to deburr the rib holes in the skins.

Adam is off with his neighborhood buddy cutting lawns to make some bucks. I put in 2.5 hours, deburred the bottom skin and got the tiedown hole transferred & upsized.

[Bryan Cotton]

Root rib. On the aft one I almost forgot the gussets. Had to updrill some of the gusset holes separately and thanks to the miracle of CNC they lined up anyway.

I am halfway through deburring the skins.

[Bryan Cotton]

All deburred and we are onto polishing.


Somebody wake me up when we are done and give me some motrin.

[Sonex1243]

I finally finished my flaps and ailerons with "C". Man do I ache all over too.

[Bryan Cotton]

Halfway through pass 2 of F9:


Ready for some mineral spirits then pass 3:

[wlarson861]

At the early stages of polish, mineral spirits work well to remove the excess polish, but it leaves a film. I use rubbing alcohol in the highest percent. It dissolves the residue and leaves no film or streaks. This is how I clean now when I re-polish, and to remove bugs. The late Tom Huebbe turned me onto that trick, and I rarely use mineral spirits.