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Daniels Web Site
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Date: 5-13-2012
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Number of Hours: 6.50
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Manual Reference: 6-5 / 6-6
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Brief Description: Rudder Skeleton
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Finished up edge deburring all of the rudder skeleton parts. Fabricated the rudder horn shim and the fairing attach strips. Assembled the skeleton, skins, and counterweight housing / ribs. Flared ribs as required to achive straight rivet hole alignment. That counter weight skin is pretty thick and gave me a bit of a headache. In the pictures, you'll see all of the clecos I had to use to hold that assembly in place for match drilling. I continued to match-drill the remaining areas of the rudded once I had it fully assembled... Then I tore down the whole rudder assembly, hole deburred everything I had just match drilled and dimpled as necessary. I had planned on pre-koteing and final preping for shooting the AKZO epoxy primer but unfortunately the weather was not agreeing with my plans. It may be a couple days before I get to prep & prime. It's forecasted to rain for the next couple days. We shall see if the weather men are right. Over all, the rudder assembly was pretty easy, it's just a little time consuming with all of the stiffeners, little parts and my OCD. It tuned out beautiful. I'm very happy with how it turned out at this point. Not mistakes this go-a-round. We'll see haow the final assembly goes. Oh yeah, one other thing to mention, Is that I had a hard time telling whether the couterweight skin was to go on the inside or outside. after much researsh and calling a couple local builders, the result is that the counter weight skin goes on the inside of the main rudder skin... Seemd a bit odd to me but Its right.
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Skin & Skeleton going together
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Fully Assembled for match-drilling
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Rudder Horn & Fairing attach strips
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