4 hours.
\nThe whole bent-tab design on the elevators and the trim tabs of the RV series is frakking retarded. There. Got that off my chest. The elevator tab turned out messy. The inner tab looked like it got worked over by somebody looking to collect a debt or extract information. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case, it was just me. I had it clamped in the blocks, to make the bend, but during some light work with the rivet gun, it slipped and I bashed the hell out of it. The outer (upper) tab went a lot better, and looked fairly decent. In my attempts to get the lower tab looking a little better, I managed to crack the metal near the relief notch on one end. No big deal, cut the cracked part out (crack was less than 1\/8″), round it out, deburr. As soon as I got that done, I bent the upper one (the good one) out just a bit so I could get to something and it cracked too. So I built a riblet. I probably could have built it out of a thinner material, but the scrap available was the same gauge as the root rib and spars. The good thing about that was that I could machine countersink it to accept dimpled skins and not have to worry about getting a dimpler inside the riblet. I like the riblet, but it cost me a couple of hours.
\nAfter that, I got going on the trim tab itself. Bending the tabs on that is much easier. And like someone said on VAF, it’s a lot easer to do any tab-bending before you bend the skins in the brake. It’s probably easier to do it before you rivet the stiffeners on, too. But I got that done, then drilled in the trim-tab hinge to the trim tab spar, and that’s where I’m at right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
4 hours. The whole bent-tab design on the elevators and the trim tabs of the RV series is frakking retarded. There. Got that off my chest. The elevator tab turned out messy. The inner tab looked like it got worked over by somebody looking to collect a debt or extract information. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}