Day 13 – Deburring and more Deburring

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 practice kit.

What I spent almost all of my time on tonight was deburring. Both the rudder and going back and fixing some of my mistakes with deburring in the vertical stabilizer.

It was all of these little notches that were not deburred properly. I went back and fixed it after I bought some new files. I got some small files from Walmart today to get this done. I thought the files I had were small enough but they weren’t.

I had though you only needed to worry about the sharp edges and so I left these areas alone. After re-reading some of the deburring sections in Section 5, I saw that you need to get the broad side of the edge on every single surface. So there went 4 hours into deburring 🙂