Today I was busy with getting the stiffeners prepped, cleaned and primed. In the picture below, I have the stiffeners already prepped with scotchbrite and all the holes deburred. I clean the parts with acetone prior to adding the primer. Primer applied. Please comment, I love to hear from my readers. Thanks again for coming along for […]
Rudder assembly continues
This evening, I started with removing the plastic film from the rudder in the areas where the stiffeners will be riveted. The reason for this is because I only want to add primer where I have mating surfaces. The remainder of the rudder skin will be protected by the blue film until the final assembly. […]
Horizontal Stabilizer Reinforcing Angles
Today I didn’t have a lot of time so I picked a small job to do which was to do the layout of trim lines on the horizontal stabilizer HS-810-1 and HS-814-1 reinforcing angles. Please comment, I love to hear from my readers. Thanks again for coming along for this ride, you make my work worthwhile.
Rudder Stiffeners – Layout and cutting to size
This evening I moved on to the rudder and started with cutting out the rudder stiffeners. The stiffeners are cut from several pieces of bent aluminum angle. The plans are pretty easy to understand with here to mark the layout and where to do the cutting. In the picture below, you can see the layout […]