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Date:  7-29-2012
Number of Hours:  16.00
Manual Reference:  7-10
Brief Description:  Aileron and Flap Brackets

Over the past couple weeks my attention has been focused on preparing the baby's room for her long awaited arrival (7 weeks to go). I have been dabling in flap and aileron brackets but today was the first full day i was able to allocate towards their completion.

These brackets are thick aluminum stamped from a press that require a ton of duburring at the edges to remove the cut marks. There are also several small angles that needed to be fabricated from stock angle. The plans are very lacking in this department. Much time was spent pondering the drawings and searching other builders sites.

Riveting these brackets in place was an equal combination of hand squeezer, pnuematic squezzer and rivet gun/bucking bar.

The aileron brackets were pretty simple. The flap brackets required a ton of thought and fabrication. I have defaulted to the traditiional hack saw for most of my aluminum angles now. It is more work, but i've found it to provide more quality results than the band saw or dremel tool.

Since most work now is towards the trailing edge of the wings, i fabricated a new type of cradle stand to hold the wings with the trailing edge up, as opposed to down, on my my wing jig. I installed casters on the bottom of each cradle for ease of relocation. This is likely how the wing will be stored, when i move on to the fuse.

The 16 hours represents build time over the past couple weeks, not necessarily today.
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Flap Bracket Parts

Flap Bracket Parts

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Brackets riveted in place with fairings cleco'd on and ready for drilling

Brackets riveted in place with fairings cleco'd on and ready for drilling

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Wing happily resting in it's new cradle

Wing happily resting in it's new cradle

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