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Date:  11-22-2007
Number of Hours:  3.00
Manual Reference:  6T6 3-4
Brief Description:  Drill and cleco elevator cut out channel to elevat

1. When I began building the rudder, I too the cheap route suggested in the Homebuilt Help video and bought steel 2x4's instead of the 2x2 steel beams recommended by ZAC. I decided that I could not be confident enough of the linearity of multiple sections of the 2x4's set up on my work table. So, I purchased 2 2"x2"x12' 10-gauge square steel tubes from Pacific Steel. I painted them with some Rustoleum Primer that I had on hand. I believe that they are straighter than my table. They can be seen in fig. 1. I hope that the 12' length will work well for supporting the wings when I build them.

2. Marked, removed, cut the middle rib on the left hand side to fit the elevator cut out channel.

3. Joggled the end of the middle rib so that it would fit inside the cut out channel without bulging the channel and skin.

4. Reassembled the elevator with the cut out channel in place, clecoing both the top and bottom skins in place.

5. Then I used the small awl visible in fig. 2 in to pull the channel rearward so that it was flush with a straight edge held against the edges of the cut out. With the channel in position I drilled #40 the 1st hole through the top skin, rib, and channel, and clecoed.

6. Then I worked across the cutout drilling and clecoing.

7. After completing the top skin, I repeated this on the bottom of the elevator.
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Elevator on new steel beams

Elevator on new steel beams

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Preparing to drill bottom skin to cut out channel

Preparing to drill bottom skin to cut out channel

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Cut out channel drilled & clecoed

Cut out channel drilled & clecoed

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