13 Jan 2023 - 1.9 hours
Nothing picture-worthy tonight... I continued where I left off yesterday by match-drilling all the holes between the vertical stabilizer skin and skeleton. After doing that, I disassembled everything and deburred all of the rib, spar, and skin holes.I also made a visit to Harbor Freight today and bought an HVLP spray gun. It was $15 so I'm sure it's terrible quality but I only need it to spray primer on the parts, and surface finish doesn't matter for that so this should do the trick! I still need to set up some sort of spray booth out in the garage and heat it but that's a problem for another day.
Next up will be dimpling the VS parts. After that, I will probably just move on to the control surfaces and get them to this ready-to-prime stage. I still don't have the backordered brackets and bearings so I can't completely assemble any of the parts yet. Also, I can do one giant priming event and get most (all?) of the tail kit done at once to hopefully minimize the waste, cleanup, and time spent dealing with spraying primer in general.