Stabilator – Skin clecoed on
Left and right skins have been clecoed on to skeleton. Now it looks like some aircraft part. Biggest so far.
Month: February 2015
Stabilator – Skin preparation
Page 09-08 Match-drilled a few holes in the piano hinges. Now they are ready for riveting. Started and completed skins deburring and preparation for riveting to the stab skeleton. Took almost 4 hours
Stabilator – Piano hinges prepared
Page 09-07 Prepared piano hinges that sit between stabilator and anti-servo tabs. (Cut to size, drilled through template and deburred it all) Started preparing the stabilator skins.
Stabilator – Hinge Brackets
Page 09-07 Hinges need to be attached to the spars with AN3-4A bolts going into nutplates. The nutplates are bit tricky. They are compressed slightly at the end of the thread, thus generating extra torque when you run the bolt …
Stabilator – Riveting skeleton
Page 09-06 Attached all the HS ribs to the spars. Now it all looks like an aircraft part.
Stabilator – putting it all together. Slowly
Completed page 09-05 Rib clips were done (cut and deburred) earlier. HS-1210 hinge stops were fabricated. I need to get a pipe cutter for next time I need to do something similar. It is hard to get a nice straight cut. …
Stabilator – Some more riveting
Completed stuff on page 09-04 Riveted nutplates to hinge brackets. Riveted counterbalance brackets to to the spars and clecoed the spar box back together Spend 1 hour
Stabilator – riveting nutplates
Riveted nutplates on the spars for control horns and hinges. New rivet squeezer seems to work better. Preparation and squeezing – 2 hours