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Jeff Mitchell's RV8 project
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Date:  7-3-2007
Number of Hours:  3.00
Manual Reference:  6-7
Brief Description:  Riveted Rudder skin to understructure.

After 6 weeks away at work, I'm back and hard at work on the Rudder assembly. I enlarged a few holes on the R-710 horn brace to accept blind rivets then applied RTV joint compound to the end of the stiffeners. Then squeezed the rivets joining the skin and the understructure. I needed my 4" no-hole yoke for a few of them and blind rivets for the horn brace and the lower trailing edge. I think the flush head blind rivets look fine. I had no problems with the riveting and did not have to drill a single one out.
Next up is rolling the leading edge.
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RTV joint compound in place

RTV joint compound in place

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Blind Rivets look fine

Blind Rivets look fine

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Rudder skin riveted in place

Rudder skin riveted in place

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