We
heard back from our tech advisor regarding the cracked skin from
yesterday... he seemed to think the proseal idea should be sufficient,
or at least provide enough buffer to give us time to notice and rectify
the issue should the crack start propogating in the future.
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(9-17 step 2): Ok,
I must have been tired last night because I bent the lower edge of the
second trim tab skin tonight using the exact same procedure and it took
all of about 10 minutes! Next I deburred all the holes and made
sure all the edges were deburred. While doing this the portion of
the skins aft of the tabs appeared to stick out way too much
(left)… I just didn't like the way it looked so I sanded them
down (right)… mainly just for appearance. It doesn't
bother me as much now ;-)
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(9-17 step 6):
Once all the trim tab pieces were deburred, next step was to
countersink the upper flange of the spars, and basically dimple
eveything else. Unfortunately our 1/8" dimple die (needed for the
#30 holes in the closeout tabs) is relatively fat and will not fit in
the space available for the closeout tabs. We'll either have to
shave our existing dimple die down, or see about getting a thinner
one. We'll see...
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On another note… here's something interesting/frustrating. We ordered Rivethead-Aero's trim cable anchor brackets
to replace Van's WD-415 (you'll see why later). UPS finally
showed up with them late today… but get this… as the guy
was walking up the driveway he couldn't get his scanner to scan the bar
code. I was actually walking out to meet him since I saw him
drive up. So there I was about 10' from the guy when he says " I
can't get it to scan so I can't deliver it today". Then he turns
around, goes back to his truck, and drives off... I'm just
standing there thinking 'did that actually happen?'. Hmmm... I'm
curious to see what's going to happen now!
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