Rudder work today and I messed up a skin, oh shit. I called Van's an ordered another, $38 plus shipping, but I want a good plane and don’t want to cut corners or have dents. ;-) This trailing edge is much tougher then it needs to be, I really think the elevator is a much better design and stronger to boot with the folded trailing edge and the .016 rudder skin is just too delicate in my mind. I match drilled the trailing edge to an angle so I can cleco it down when I glue it with JB weld or Proseal. I’m still waiting on my Akzo primer, so I have no choice but to keep on building and just working on getting all the parts made and ready for painting.
Fitting up the counter balance
Match drilling trailing edge for bonding with cleco's
