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Forward Spar Countersinking

October 17, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

This evening I had a little time to countersink several holes in the rear side of the center forward spar. This area has flush rivets installed because a steel plate is eventually bolted to the HS forward spar in this area. The steel plate is used to attach the vertical stabilizer.

I found a really good picture depicting this on the Docthrock F1 Rocket website. I hope they don’t mind me using their picture here. Here is a link to the specific blog post.

 

Below is a photo of the rivet holes that I’ve countersunk. Unlike the photo above, I chose to keep a few fasteners in areas not affected by the vertical stabilizer mounting plate to remain as standard universal head rivets. In particular the outer rivets on the upper edge of the spar.

Please comment, I love to hear from my readers.  Thanks again for coming along for this ride, you make my work worthwhile.

 

 

Filed Under: Empennage, Horizontal Stabilizer Tagged With: Countersink, Empennage, Horizontal Stabilizer, Spar, Stiffener, Vertical Fin

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