In keeping with the general build plan, the next phase of the tail construction was to drill out all the holes to ye olde A4 rivet size. This completes the skin, spar and ribs preparation, they now need to be deburred and riveted. Yesterday I had cut out the shape for the rear bracket...
After last week’s failure with the straps I started off the day by duct taping the skin to the spar and then trying to get the straps over and around and tight. No matter how we tried we couldn’t get the straps tight enough without the metal hooks tightening around the skin which didn’t...
Today I had planned to get the skin drilled and assembled to the spars but it wasn’t to be. Skins seem to be a bit of an Achilles Heel with me. Anyway, I got the skin out and clecoed it to the spars. With everything as flat and level as I could get it,...
The first business of the day was locating and drilling the upper and lower doublers into the front spar. A tip rib gets attached to each end of the spars and an L-angle gets cut to support it against the front spar. I marked and drilled the location of the rivet holes and attached...
Time to start a brand new kit!! The tail definitely represents a new challenge in the construction, bigger pieces, and some intricate placing of parts. Anyway, the first act of the day was to take the tail parts out of the crate and put the flaperons in their place. When the tail is done...
Not much left to do on the flaperon today. During the week I had ordered more anti-corrosion protectant and so the first order of the day was to apply that where I had run out the previous weekend. Once dry I reassembled the skin and the ribs and riveted the top side of the...
I did not get much done today! I drilled the rib angles for their respective ribs. I made sure not to repeat my mistake from the previous inboard flaperon and drill the holes for the root rib. These are defined by where the control horn gets situated. I got it right this time. From...
Got a late start so did not do as much as I had anticipated, really thought I’d be done with the flaperons today (pending the replacement parts). Really not much to say… drilled out the holes in the control horn to their final size (A5 rivet). After this I cut and drilled the L-angle...