Today I’m getting back to doing a bit more work on the rudder. In the picture below, you will see one of many new ribs that I made. The parts that have primer are the parts I originally worked with that I didn’t previously screw up. With rib 4200-17 in place, I then added […]
Elevator Hinges Continued
Today, work continues to continue on the elevator hinges. It seems like this work has been ongoing for a long long time and I’m eager to start to move forward on some new work. A bit of visual progress was made by getting the elevator ribs drilled and clecoed to the elevator spars, as shown […]
Elevator Center Hinges
The workload for today is focused on finishing the left and right elevator center hinges. In the last work session I screwed up the hole on one of these hinge brackets (not drilled on center) and as a result I need to make a new bracket. Elevator Center Hinge Construction I thought I was being […]
Elevator Hinge Layout Tool
Elevator Hinge Layout Tool In this post I’m going to show you what we did to make a tool to help us ensure that we have the elevator hinge bracket bolt holes in proper alignment. The alignment for the elevator hinges is completely based upon the center bellcrank. Because the bellcrank is a machined […]