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Miguel Vidal RV-8
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Date:  12-30-2012
Number of Hours:  2.00
Manual Reference:  8s6r12 6-13
Brief Description:  Finishing the Elevators

In order to remove the "pillowing" along the overlapping Leading Edges of RH & LH elevators, a series of new blind rivets were placed between existing blind rivets.
After realizing not much could be done to remove the pillowing, and in order to avoid moisture buildup that could lead to corrosion issues, I decided to reverse the order in which both elevators skins were closed together at the LE, having to remove all the blind rivets and closing the skins top over bottom, resolving as well the pillowing issues.
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Pillowing between rivets

Pillowing between rivets

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Reversed overlapping skins. No more pillowing

Reversed overlapping skins. No more pillowing

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Working on elevators LE

Working on elevators LE

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