Brief Description: Joined the rudder halves together
Finally I finished the tooling projects and I can start working on actual airplane parts. The first task is to clean the skin surfaces and trailing edge wedge with iso alcohol. Then you carefully lay down a layer of double sided tape to each side of the wedge. I cleco'ed it in place in the right hand skin for 20 minutes to let the adhesive set.
The rudder halves are joined at the stiffeners with pop rivets. It's very tight in that space and I had a lot of trouble getting the pop rivets in place. Eventually, I got everything riveted and then pulled the backing off the other side of the tape. The aluminum angle was cleco'ed in place to keep the T.E. straight and I was done for the day.
Next I get to use my alignment jig that I spent so much time on.
Installed the trailing edge wedge to one skin using double sided tape
Riveting the internal stiffeners together
Halves joined and trailing edge locked straight with aluminum angle
