Nose skins, the bane of this plane building lark and we struggled a bit this time too. Using great care not to bend the skin, or to snag it on the slat supports, we pushed it around under the top skin and taped it shut.
Then we got out the ratchet straps from earlier in the build and slowly tightened them to bring the skin in tight over the nose ribs. We couldn’t get it right the first time so we undid it all and tried it again to much better results.
After careful checking that the skin was tight on the ribs we set to drilling pilot holes through the pre-drilled hole in the top skin into the nose skin and spar.
After a break for lunch, we opened all the holes to size 30 for the old A4 rivet.
This marks the end of my Dad’s visit and his help in the garage. It has made a big difference to have someone helping and cajoling me on, I’ll definitely miss him.
From here, the major task is to install the fuel tank plus a few extra bits and then rivet the skins in place.