25 Jan 2026 - 1 hour
After being out of town for work all week, I found a manageable task to bite off on my very cold return to the garage (it's been well zero, -18 F for lows and -5 F for highs). I clamped the squeezer to the workbench and quickly dimpled the leading edge ribs for both wings, as well as the right wing tank splice strip. I also hit the dimples called out in the plans with a countersink to open up just a touch more room where there are three layers of dimpled material (tank skin, splice plate, and rib).
A short time later, everything was done and I was cold so called this a good stopping point.
I need to do the dimples on the main wing ribs, and rear spar, counter sink the main spar, and redo the nutplates on the main spar now that the correct ones have arrived. I also need to taper the edges of the corners of the top main skins. Once all that prep work gets done, I can move onto priming parts, and then riveting the leading edge and main skins!