September 29th, 2020 The new skin arrived! And I was surprised that it had final sized holes! Sped up the work a TON. I almost got all of the dimpling done, but I’ll finish that tomorrow. I did break the small tip of the male dimple die off inside of Read more…
September 28th, 2020 I didn’t do too much work today as I was trying to determine if I could fix the trailing edge of the rudder skin or if I should reorder it. I put the rudder back together to check fitment after doing the dimpling and the rudder trailing Read more…
September 27th, 2020 Page 7-6: Step 11-12 I didn’t spend too much time today on this. I spent alot of time trying to get the platform setup right. I started dimpling the trailing edge and it just didn’t look right. It was cupping and the dies were leaving marks on Read more…
September 26th, 2020 Page 7-6: Step 8-10 Steps 8 & 9 were done very quickly as it wasn’t alot of effort or deburring. The bend in the trailing edge of the rudder was pretty easy with the tool from Cleaveland Tools. I had previous experience using it with the small Read more…
September 25th, 2020 Page 7-6: Step 1-7 I spent a lot of time today working on getting everything clecoed together and doing match drilling. The most difficult part was that they wanted a cleco for every hole that you match drilled and in a specific order from the middle of Read more…
September 24th, 2020 Page 7-4: Step 4-6, Page 7-5: Step 1-5 I finished the rest of the control horn drilling/countersinking, deburring, and match drilling. I also got the spare deburred and all of the stiffeners and shear clips clecoed together and match drilled. I also finally countersunk the control horn Read more…
September 23rd, 2020 Page 7-2: Step 1-3, Page 7-3: Step 1, Page 7-4: Step 1-3 After rethinking and reinspecting the holes I had dimpled in the vertical stabilizer skin, I realized there were just a ton of holes that were misshapen. And after some discussion on Facebook, I’ve come to Read more…
September 22nd, 2020 Page 6-3: Step 7-11, Page 6-4: Step 1-4 I got alot done today! I got all of the dimpling completed as well as countersinking. I need to figure out how to get the primer done tomorrow for all of the internal parts. I will need to put Read more…
September 21st, 2020 Page 6-3: Step 6 First day of skin dimpling and first day of the dimple slip mistake. Well, twice! LOL. Going to research how best to resolve this one. I might have to step up a size in rivet for one of these, but not sure on Read more…
September 19th, 2020 Page 6-3: Step 3 & 4 All of the parts were together for the first time today! I got all of the holes drilled. I did notice a mistake a made on the original drilling I did for the flange holes. I drilled them to #30 size Read more…