Ivan's RV-7

Continuing deburring the ribsTimer icon1h

August 7, 2024

There was another pause due to vacation time and some other DIY projects, and now back to deburring of the ribs.

Nothing too fancy, just slowly going through the ribs. However, I have a bit of an issue with the nose ribs. I smoothed them to remove the "faceting", and then later realized that this caused a knife-edging in some of the flanges.

Here is what the worst case looks like (after some additional deburring to remove the knife edge):

Too much smoothing, got a knife edge!

Also, when I checked the rib against the skin, it turned out that the nose part of the rib didn't even touch the skin! So, I don't think I needed to do that smoothing at all.

There is some gap between the skin and the nose rib

I asked builders support what to do, but for now, I will continue with the rest of the ribs.