Day 12 — Elevator & Trim Tab
Date: 3-16-2019 Participants: Sue and Rob Hours: 2 hours total (4 person-hours) The fun continues…
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Day 10 – Elevator & Trim Tab 3/3/2019
Date: 3-3-2019 Participants: Sue and Rob Start Time: 10:00 End Time: 12:00 Hours: 2 hours total (4 person-hours) Are we really up to the elevator already? Wow. We really haven’t been putting in that much time. When we ordered just the tail first we had no idea what to expect, but we were definitely not… Continue reading Day 10 – Elevator & Trim Tab 3/3/2019
Day 8 & 9 – Horizontal Stabilizer Skins 3/2-3/2019
Date: 3-2-2019 3 hours Participants: Sue and Rob Date: 3-3-2019 1 hours Participants: Sue and Rob Hours: 4 hours total (8 person-hours) We were a bit dismayed when some of the countersunk rivets broke off their stems above the surface. Thought maybe it was technique, but no luck improving our odds. Seems like 1 out… Continue reading Day 8 & 9 – Horizontal Stabilizer Skins 3/2-3/2019
Day 7 – Horizontal Stabilizer Skins 2/24/2019
Date: 2-24-2019 Participants: Sue and Rob Start Time: 10:00 End Time: 16:00 Hours: 5.5 hours total (11 person-hours) We’re getting pretty good at labeling which rivets go where and planning ahead to avoid mistakes, but we realized today that we did not yet have the dimpling tool needed for the countersunk rivets. We tried fabricating… Continue reading Day 7 – Horizontal Stabilizer Skins 2/24/2019
Day 6 – Horizontal Stabilizer Frame – 2/22-23/2019
Date: 2-22-2019 1 hour Participants: Sue Date: 2-23-2019 Participants: Sue and Rob Start Time: 10:00 End Time: 14:00 Hours: 3 hours total (5 person-hours) The horizontal stabilizer seems HUGE. We started working on its frame Friday after work, only to realize that we had accidentally grabbed several of the right size rivets but of the… Continue reading Day 6 – Horizontal Stabilizer Frame – 2/22-23/2019
Days 4&5 – Vertical Stabilizer 2/11/2019, 2/17/2019
Date: 2-11-2019 1.5 hours Participants: Sue and Rob Date: 2-17-2019 1.5 hours Participants: Sue and Rob Hours: 3 hours total (6 person-hours) The ‘twist’ issue made us a little nervous and was a bit of an annoyance to figure out how to measure well. But in the end we concluded we had no significant twist… Continue reading Days 4&5 – Vertical Stabilizer 2/11/2019, 2/17/2019
Day 3 – Vertical Stabilizer 2/10/2019
Date: 2-10-2019 Participants: Sue and Rob Start Time: 10:00 End Time: 14:00 Hours: -hours total (8 person-hours) After a bit of a wait for schedules and tooling, it’s time to build again. Took a few minutes to figure out the pneumatic riveter setup, but well worth it. And a lot of fun to use too.… Continue reading Day 3 – Vertical Stabilizer 2/10/2019
Day 2 – Rudder 1/26/2019
Date: 1-26-2019 Participants: Sue and Rob Start Time: 10:00 End Time: 15:15 Hours: 4.5 hours total (9 person-hours) We had everything we needed, so we got started. It almost seemed too easy, but after Cleco-ing everything together it was time to rivet. Those Clecos are great inventions btw. Using the hand-squeeze riveter started out as… Continue reading Day 2 – Rudder 1/26/2019