Angela
heard back from Van's on her front spar incident... no harm, no foul...
we'll just have bigger rivets to buck in the skin! Kinda what we
figured, but now we know we don't have to pay for a new front spar and
cap (and most importantly shipping! That thing is 11 feet long!!)
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Here
is a pic of some tools a coworker of Angela's let us borrow for a
while. She was excited to show them to me (have I mentioned I
love that woman!)
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(8-5 step 2): Its
amazing what uncertainty can do to you! Once Angela was reassured
that we were good to go on the horizontal stabilizer front spar she
srung back to life with enthusiasm! Here she's final drilling the
web holes into the cap (what she originally intended to do
Sunday) Once drilled, they came apart and everything needed to be
deburred. She then repeated the process for the spar cap that
rests in the opposite flange... a lot of seamingly fragile pieces that
will all be combined together to form a pretty stout structural member!
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(7-11 step 2): Today
my plan after work was to get the leading edge of the rudder
rolled. I went by Lowe's and picked up a 5' long 1-1/4" pipe as
suggested in the plans. I used this and some crappy duct tape to
roll the upper portion of the leading edge. Either my duct tape
was old, or just plain bad! It left gum all over
everything! In the picture you can see the upper portion of the
leading edge has already been rolled. I put the "slight bend" in
Van's mentions after the roll... this proved to be somewhat difficult,
so I decided to try it before the roll this time, so that's what I'm
doing to the middle section here. I'll roll it later.
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