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
September 18, 2020 Page 6-2: Step 6, Page 6-3: Step 1-2 I finally got steps 6 and7 done! The holes are countersunk for the rivets on the bottom half of the front side of the spar doubler and all of the other pieces have been deburred. I might need to Read more
September 16th, 2020 Page 6-2: Step 2 – 4 Well, I’m not cheering too soon haha. It will be coming apart again to get reburred, but this is its first time together! This was Section 6, Steps 3-5.
September 15th, 2020 Page 6-2: Step 1 & 2 I just got cleared to start doing work again. I’ve been out since June 24th due to rotator cuff repair. I will say, I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy. I got almost back to where I was before my Read more