Sunday, July 16, 2017

Horizontal stabilator Part 2/4

Put in another 7 hours at the airport today.  I was hoping to get the stabilator buttoned up.. or at least painted..   but I got as far as knocking the edges off the ribs.  I need a faster way to do this.  I need a belt sander.

I sometimes forget to mention a lot of the small side things that need to be done.  For instance, I needed to cut four  21/32" long spacers from aluminum tubing.  Not a huge thing to do, but they were calling for -0 / +1/32" tolerance, so I needed to go a little slower and make good measurements.

Here's what I started with today:



While I was making the second video today, I noticed that there were two rivets in the wrong places.  I think I had pointed them out in the video and immediately realized they didn't belong there.




I spent some time taking the vinyl sheeting off of the skins to start to get them ready for priming.  


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