Today I had the first visit from
Gunnar Iversen to check my work so far on the vertical stabilizer and the rudder. He was happy so I could proceed to close both.
Vertical stabilizer
I did rivet the the aft spar onto the rest of the structure with no major problem. Except that is's a bit difficult to reach the 4 AD426 along the middle hinge bracket. I managed it by using the angled side of the tungsten bucking bar from the Cleaveland tool kit. Also the two outer AN470AD4 rivets on to the root rib was a bit difficult to rivet and hold together at the same time.
Rudder
The rudder is ready for riveting, but I can't proceed before the double sided tape (
3M F9460PC) for the trailing edge arrives. That should be on Tuesday.
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The trailing edge was countersinked with the special countersinker
from Cleaveland tools. |
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| The skin is ready for riveting. |
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I've also 3D printed the templates to form the leading
edge. I got them from the PDF version of the drawings (07-13) |
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