30 August 2008
Riveting rudder skeleton
4.0 hours
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Riveting counterbalance skin (Full size) We put on the upper counterbalance rib and skin, and put in the 6 rivets from the skin to the rib. |
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Another view of counterbalance skin and rib (Full size) Here is another picture of the skin and rib, before we put in the rivets |
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Dimpling rudder skins (Full size) I then dimpled the skins common to the ribs and spars. |
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Angle clamped to skin to help hold it (Full size) The skin was too thin to get some of the holes dimpled, so I clamped an aluminum angle to one edge to help hold it. This worked great |
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Cleco'd skin to rudder skeleton (Full size) Cleco'd the skins to the skeleton, before putting in the rivets common to the skin and counterbalance skin |
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View of counterbalance weight bolted to rib (Full size) Here is the counterbalance weight bolted to the rib. Even though the grip length is right at a -10, there is still a whole lot of threads showing above the nut. I put 3 washers and there was still 6 threads showing. Yet the non-threaded bolt length is not showing above the hole. I think it is ok, just the style of these countersunk bolts, but I'll ask on the forums just in case. |
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