I haven’t posted for a long time, but have been pushing along various jobs including the baffles, wing root covers, fuel system and painting various small parts such as the flaps, ailerons etc. While the wings were still pinned on to the fuselage, I did a complete fuel system and tank test, by filling the wings with fuel and running the fuel pumps each side through the entire distribution system, except for the final lines to the injectors. No leaks, good fuel pressure, no weeping rivets. After this, I took
I thought about how to set the wings up for painting quite a bit, and finally decided to make a set of stands to hold the wing in place vertically, with the nose highest. I discounted more complex schemes such as rotisseries, RV-10 wings are quite large and a rotisserie would need to be quite robust. Apart from which, it is unnecessary. Painting the large wing surfaces vertically gives you the easiest access and optics to maintain a wet edge, and in an amateur setup without highly filtered air it exposes th
I was going to build a booth out of structural pine and plastic, but after pricing the required material I elected to save the hours and buy a cheap inflatable booth. It’s large – 10m x 5m – and the blower to keep it inflated is noisy, but it was easy to set up in the hangar and the filters were quite adequate.