Month: April 2014

 

Lots of non-aircraft related things to do this weekend, but we still made some reasonable progress.  Things certainly look more impressive with the HS skins sitting on the bench.

We finished deburing the in-spar ribs and the nose ribs, which accounts for almost all the work time since the last update.  We also match drilled a few holes in the ribs and spar.  Tracey helped deburr this weekend, which was very much appreciated.

I constructed the jig (according to the plans) to hold the horizontal stabilizer vertically on the workbench for better access.  Also deburred the HS skins.

Next step is cleco it all together and match drill.  Then, as always, disassemble, deburr, and reassemable.

Berck: 8 hours, Randy: 8 hours, Tracey: 8 hours

We did work on the Horizontal Stabilizer on Saturday.  I didn’t post anything because I forgot to take pictures, and we stopped fairly early.

We got the front spar doubler and the brackets all riveted together.  There’s primer here because we made some significant scratches that I sanded out (through the alclad), plus I wasn’t sure about whether these brackets should be primed or not.

I’ve spent a couple of hours working on these silly ribs:

We’re planning on a fairly short day Saturday as well, but hopefully something that looks like a horizontal stabilizer will be in these photos before long!

Berck: 8 hours, Randy: 5 hours.