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Sid & Houston Mayeux Project
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Date:  1-20-2011
Number of Hours:  2.00
Manual Reference:  Rudder
Brief Description:  Rolling the leading edge

The rudder skins come together to overlap and rivet together at the forward end. However, you want a nice round surface to tuck behind the vertical stabilizer. If you just fold the two skins toward each other, you get a pointy junction that won't clear the vert stab, so we used a broom handle to introduce a roll to the skin.

First we duct taped the broom handle to the entire leading edge, then force-rolled the handle with vice grips. Image 3 shows the result.
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Taping the broom handle

Taping the broom handle

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Forcing the roll

Forcing the roll

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Ready to rivet

Ready to rivet

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