Marty de la Motte's Blog – January 2011 Archive (4)

Stabilizer skeleton complete

I borrowed some flanging dies from a fellow 701 builder here in Tassie (thanks James!)  5 minutes work with a car jack and the holes were done.

Assembled and riveted the skeleton. 

Added by Marty de la Motte on January 29, 2011 at 1:45pm — No Comments

Ok, NOW the rudder is complete...?

Fabricated and installed the upper mounting points.  Also riveted the control horn/lower mounting point, and the upper & lower spar fairings.  

Stupidly I decided to hand rivet the upper mounting points... "It's hardly worth starting the compressor for 8 rivets..." yeah right, they're A5 and take a bit more force than A4's.  Wised up and air riveted the rest.

That should be it for the rudder apart from trimming the nose skin to clear the elevator.  I'll leave that until the…

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Added by Marty de la Motte on January 22, 2011 at 5:16am — No Comments

Rudder complete! (almost).

Over the last couple of evenings I got busy - cut and bent the rudder skins, marked, drilled, clecoed, drilled, unclecoed, trimmed... and today I deburred, Scotchbrited, primed, and finally riveted everything together.

It was a pleasure to use the air riveter for the first time - I may never pull a rivet manually again...!

 

Added by Marty de la Motte on January 19, 2011 at 2:57am — 2 Comments

Almost completed stabilizer

Formed all stabilizer ribs, front and rear spars (and their doublers).  Drilled and clecoed the whole assembly.
Still trying to source Zinc Chromate or Cortec, so can't actually rivet anything until I've got that.

Added by Marty de la Motte on January 1, 2011 at 4:35am — No Comments

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