16 July 2008
Finishing rudder skin stiffeners
4.5 hours
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Drilling rudder skin stiffeners (Full size) I finished filing, deburring, all the skin stiffeners. Then I cleco'd them to the rudder skin to drill the holes to final size. |
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Final drilled rudders skin stiffeners (Full size) I finished drilling all the skins and stiffeners. Then I deburred all the holes, and dimpled the skins and the stiffeners. |
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Priming stiffeners (Full size) After dimpling, the stiffeners and skins were cleaned and primed. |
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Riveted stiffeners to skin (Full size) After the primer was dry, started the riveting of the stiffeners to the skins. Did this using back-riveting. Very fast and easy. |
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