Today I started the day off with a priming session. I got all of the rudder parts primed. Then I did some fabricating work on the trailing edge wedge. After that, it was on to dimpling the rudder skins and stiffeners. I’ve got a bit more dimpling to do and then it’s on to riveting it all together.
Rudder skins primed Rudder stiffeners are primed Rudder spar and doublers primed Rudder doublers and nutplates riveted to the spar Rudder skins dimpled
Tonight I continued work on the rudder. It was mostly more deburring (I had to debur the large skins) and some minor drilling operatings. Tomorrow I’m going to get everything primed.
Most of the rudder parts all deburred and ready to be primed A few more parts waiting to be primed.
Tonight I got started on the rudder. The first few steps are to some part trimming and a lot of deburring. That took up most of the night. Tomorrow should be a little more exciting ;)
Many of the parts tonight came attached together and had to be cut apart, trimmed and deburred An example of some of the trimming. Van's had really made the tasks pretty trivial with the RV-14.
Tonight I wrapped up the work on the Vertical Stabalizer. All thats left is the fiberglass fairing and some other minor task, but Van’s has you work on that later. So it’s on to the rudder tomorrow.
I used the C-Frame to rivet the spar doubler and brackets on. The doubler and brakets riveted on. At the end of the night, I've got a Vertical Stabalizer!
I jumped right in this morning and started on the Vertical Stabilizer. Each task today took me a few minutes to knock the rust off, and then it was like old times. Todays tasks were:
Match drill, debur, dimple and prime the lower rear spar doubler Rivet on the lower rear spar doubler Cleco together and match drill VS ribs and spars Cleco the skin to the ribs and spars, then match drill all the holes.