2 hours.
\nFirst legit entry in the wings category! Not because I’m finished with the empennage or anything, but here’s how it goes: After doing some tests on some scrap with both JB Weld and 3M 5200 Marine Adhesive (recommended somewhere), it became evident that neither of those substances were going to hold up during back-riveting the trailing edge of the rudder. So I bit the bullet and ordered a pint of proseal from Spruce, which should be here in a couple of days. I’m not about to mess up another rudder, this one’s gotta be the one, so I’m going to bond the TE together against an angle piece, then rivet just like the book says when the proseal bond cures. But while I’m waiting for that to show up, I have the rest of the airplane to work on, so I went for the aileron brackets. This is out of sequence, but also in that Spruce order is my drill jig for holding tubes in place in the drill press, which I need for the aileron pushrods, among other tubular activities. Everything went well, except for I got a little carried away with the countersink bit and countersunk more holes on W414A-L than I should have. So I’ve got an email into Van’s to see if this is kosher or if I need to order a new one. Since this is the attach point for a control surface, I’m guessing they’ll tell me to suck it up and rebuild it. No big deal, it’s not a huge piece, and I haven’t drilled it to the wing yet. But I went ahead and finished it using AD426 rivets along the countersunk row just in case they tell me it’s OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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