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
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
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.
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 …
Page 09-06 Attached all the HS ribs to the spars. Now it all looks like an aircraft part.
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. …
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
Riveted nutplates on the spars for control horns and hinges. New rivet squeezer seems to work better. Preparation and squeezing – 2 hours
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