Horizontal Stab – Anti-Servo started
Did not have much time tonight to do anything exciting. It was all boring deburring. Ready for clecoing, match-drilling and some more deburring. Spend 2 hours.
Month: January 2015
Rudder – Completed
After much struggle with riveting the solid rivets, I achieved the level of work I find acceptable. Blind rivets are so much nicer!!! Anyway I put the rudder skin on and riveted it on the skeleton. Skin holes line up …
Rudder – Skeleton Started
Started building the rudder skeleton Solid rivets drive me crazy. Not sure why Van’s want the rivets installed with manufactured head outside, on the thicker metal. The shop head deforms the thin metal of the rib quite a bit. It …
Vertical Stab – Finished
Vertical stab is finally completed with hinges and forward skin attached. Boelube on screws helps a lot attaching the forward skin. Could not find how much torque is required for the hinges bolts. The bolts go into nutplates. They seem …
Vertical Stab – Skin Riveting
First day of 2015! Happy New Year everyone!!! Replace the crooked rivets on the nut-plate mentioned in the previous post. Clecoed the skin to the skeleton and riveted the skin. Finally I have some components that look like aircraft’s parts …