| (Redoing the upper right elevator skin & rib halves):
Ok, lets try this again… the elevator replacement parts
came in. As mentioned before we're replacing the upper right skin
and 7 of the associated rib halves. We're only replacing the rib
halves that attach to this skin so we'll only need half of the ribs in
the pic below. So... as before, I started separating them and
deburred the halves we needed. |
| After
that I deburred the skin, bent the close out tab, clecoed the rib
halves in place, final drilled them, final drilled the remaining holes,
clecoed the assembly to the lower skin and final drilled the close out
tab holes, disassembled, and then deburred all the holes… fun,
fun! Then I got to scuff the inside of the skin, clean the dust
off and then the dimple. Finally I masked the skin for the foam
ribs... Now done, I'm back to being ready for alodine & prime... I
think I'm going to save that for tomorrow morning :-) It's always
"fun" to redo stuff... I guess technically this is the 3rd time I've
done this since there are two elevators and I'm redoing part of one of
them. |
| (10-2 step 1):
We went and picked up a tap and die set an hour or so ago so I
decided to try it out ;-) Here I'm tapping the AEX tie down bar
that will eventually become the place where the tail tie down ring will
be. I'm tapping first incase I screw it up. We'll
eventually cut off about 2" or so when we cut this thing to
length. That means the bar is long enough that if you screw up
your first attempt you can turn it around and try again simply cutting
off the boogered up end. |
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