I’ve been rather sloppy with updates to the blog this past week. Things have been very busy, and what free time I have had, I used to work on the kit. I have however been updating the photos each day. It’s a quick process to upload the pictures from the day to the gallery. I tried to make sure to at least get that done each day. I will try to update the blog with events since day 9. I did add short descriptions of the days activities to the gallery section for each day. So, at least there is some description of what was done.
Progress has been very good. A few days ago the vertical stabilizer was completed and ready to set aside until final assembly down the road. Rudder is nearly ready for riveting. I just need to countersink the holes in the trailing edge wedge and then alodine (that is, if I decide to do that again, it is quite an unpleasant task), prime and rivet.
The standard sequence for each piece of the tail seems to be:
- fabricate needed parts
- deburr edges
- assemble with cleco fasteners
- match/final drill common holes
- disassemble
- deburr holes
- alodine/prime
- rivet
- piece finished!
So you can see where the rudder is in this sequence. Rudder has an extra step in the middle of riveting. The training edge wedge needs to be glues with a sealant. The sealant that will be used is this stuff known as pro-seal. Pro-seal is definitely not fondly regarded by other RV builders. Tomorrow or the next day, I should get to see for myself how nasty this pro-seal is or whether it is much ado about nothing.
BlaineB
I Can’t wait to stop by and check this out.
looks way cool!
