Memorial Day 2021

It was a really good Memorial Day this year. We didn’t get to go outside since it rained all day long, but we did watch the PBS Memorial Day Concert on YouTube. It definitely touches my heart to remember all of what has been sacrificed for our country to stay free. From the people who gave the ultimate sacrifice, to the medical personnel, and even those who support the war efforts from home. Every single one has given a sacrifice or time, blood, sweat, and tears. It was a really good day of reflection.

I did take some opportunity while I was watching some shows today to finish the deburring of the last parts for the HS. It didn’t mention to deburr them but I felt I might as well get it done now while I have all the deburring equipment out. It was about two hours worth of work today.

I did run across an interesting issue. In the instructions, it asks you to cut an oblong hole in two of the nose ribs for the trim cables to go through. My nose ribs already had lightening holes in them and I measure the holes and they covered the area of the oblong hole that they wanted us to cut so I’m going to guess it’s no longer required. I’ll keep searching for an answer and if not I’ll contact Van’s just to make doubly sure.

Edit: I just realized that I had not posted my previous days of working on the deburring, fluting, and straightening of the other horizontal stabilizer ribs. I’ve added those images here and the time here as well. It took me almost 8 total hours to get all of this done due to the tight areas and the flanges.