I come across a weird thing. I’ve put together the spar box assembly and tried on the control horns. (Page 09-03). They turned out to be about 1.5mm larger than the spar box. (see the attached pics). There must be …
My new rivet squeezer has arrived. It is much better build, but it didnt fix my problem with solid rivets. I still need to do it in two steps – squeeze a little bit, turn squeezer 180 degrees and do …
Still waiting for the new rivet squeezer. Deburring parts for the rest of the horizontal stabilizer. Spend 1 hour
Clecoed together the spar box parts. Started riveting but decided to put it on hold till my new rivet squeezer arrived. The squeezer I’ve got has a tendency to skew rivets inwards of the yoke, so I bought another one …
Spar box parts prepared (cut, drilled, countersunk and deburred) Had only 1 hour today
Started a new section of the empennage – the main section of the horizontal stabilizer, aka Stabilator. It looks like it may take some time to build it. It is larger and more complex than anything I’ve build so far …
Anti-Servo Tab is finally completed. It is a small and simple part, but for some reason it took much longer than I expected to finish it. Spend 3 hours.
Had very little time for building tonight Riveted top skin to the ribs and clecoed the top part of the font spar. Had to change the sequence of the operations. The assembly manual calls for riveting the top of the …
Had a chance to finish deburring holes in the skin and ribs. Cut, drilled and deburred hinges. The hinges don’t seem to be alclad so I primed them with White Knight Rust Guard SLS Etch Primer. Now everything is ready for …
More drilling and deburring. This anti-servo tab looks so small. I thought I’ll finish it within 4-5 hours. It seems it may take well over 10 hours to complete it. Will see. So far all drilling is done except hinges. …