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Finished the rudder this weekend. Completely! I used proseal to stick down the trailing edge last week, and it did the trick, resulting in a dead-straight trailing edge. Wrapped in the leading edge with a 1″ dowel but still had to do a lot of pushing and pulling to make the edges meet nicely. Drilled holes [...] Finished complete preliminary assembly of rudder. Match drilled all parts, dimpled skins and spars and ribs. The last three holes or so in each rudder rib were too narroe to dimple, so I countersunk them. Since I want to acid dip and alodine the rudder, I didn’t final-assemble it yet. I set it aside in its [...] Personal events took their toll, but I’m reinvigorated now and ready to get back to it. It took a couple of days (2 hours in all) to straighten out the shop, de-rust the tools, and figure out exactly where I am in the plans, but it’s all come back to me. Ah, yes. The rudder and [...] Spent three hours staking out the rudder skins and clecoing the stiffeners through the skin to the worktable. My camera got broken at the RV flyin up at Scott’s ranch in Waco this weekend, so no pictures for a little while… |
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