I spent the majority of this weekend getting the HS put together, final drilling the holes, and then I deburred the outside holes of the skin. I did have to order a tight quarters drilling set. I tried using a right angle drill attachment from Northern Tools but it was Read more
Tonight was all about getting prepped for my next big day of contiguous time. I’m busy the next couple of days with church activities so I wanted to get these done today so I’m ready to go next time. It wasn’t too difficult to hack these out luckily.
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 Read more
Now that I’m done with the rudder, I immediately started back on the horizontal stabilizer again. I pulled all of the parts out and did a ton of drilling, countersinking, deburring, and prep work. I should have documented better during this process but I was just jamming away while doing Read more
I didn’t take many pictures of the finishing process, but it took me quite a bit of time on Saturday to get it done. I got all of the front edges rolled first. Luckily, the tool that I saw on the internet worked really well. It was just a bedroom Read more
Before all of the travel we had planned for the Mother’s Day weekend, I decided to button up the trailing edge of the rudder as well as get the spar riveted. I was able to use the squeezer for most of the spar, but there were a few places that Read more
I finally had enough contiguous time to get the rudder internal stiffeners and sheer clips riveted together and the trailing edge sealed. Now just to wait a few days for it to cure and I can finish the riveting and button this up finally!
I spent most of this weekend getting stuff put together on the rudder to make sure things lined up, etc. I noticed that the trailing edge of the rudder wasn’t super flat so I decided to follow the route that quite a few others have done which is to setup Read more
I spent some time today getting these parts deburred, dimpled, and primed so that I can start riveting when I get back after the funeral tomorrow. Luckily these were final sized hole pieces which made it much quicker in getting back to where I was before the rudder fell.
I finally got some time to cut the new rudder ribs and sheer clips as well as rivet them to the new skin I had ordered. I went ahead and put the entire rudder together again just to see how it looked, fit, etc. I was short on table space Read more