Brief Description: Skinning the Horizontal Stabilizer
Well, after talking to my tech about the horizontal stabilizer skin mistake, He suggested that I install a 30mm srtip of .016 6061-T6 on the short end to provide adequate overlap and still give me the 20 mm need to attach the fiberglass tips. I decided to take his advice and cancelled the replacement skin order with ZAC and began working on the horizontal stab once more. I made to two 'L' shaped cutouts in the skin for the front attachment angles to protrude through. Then I deburred all the holes and applied Cortex to the inside of the stab. skin. Then I clecoed and riveted the bottom of the the skin to the framework leaving room to install the 30mm extension on the end. Next I flipped the assembly over and used straps and 1X2s to gently pull the top skin around and into place so that I could mark the spar and rib locations on the skin. Using a template I created to mark the location and rivet pitch, I marked and predrilled the rivet locations through the topside of the skin.
Appling corrsive protection to the inside of the stabilizer skin
Rivetting the bottom of the horizontal stablizer
Marking and predrilling the rivet locations on the top skin
