HS Spar Caps and Stringer Cutting & Deburring

January 31, 2021

Page 8-3: Step 3, Page 8-4: Step 1

While I’m waiting on some rivets to show up as well as a torque wrench for the low end torque ranges to show up, I decided to soldier on. I started with step 3 of page 8-3. I started measuring out and cutting the figure to the top left, but neglected to notice that you needed to cut down the flanges to a specific size first which is in the bottom right diagram in the picture below. Seriously? Why can’t that be the first diagram? You will have to make those cuts first before you make the cuts in the top left diagram. And of course I didn’t notice it until I had already cut out both. So I had to reorder the AA6-187 x 2 x 2 1/2 x 5 which luckily wasn’t that bad and hopefully they’ll wrap it up in the same order I made yesterday for the rudder skin and a few other parts.

With that all screwed up (lol) I moved on to the next part. I started on page 8-4: step 1 which was cutting some angles off of the spar caps and stringers. Luckily that was something I was well familiar with from the VS so that went smoothly and without any issues. It does take a while to get the cuts done right and then deburring the entire piece, but it’s done and ready to go on to the next step!