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SEPTEMBER 1, 2001
The Beginning |
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ASSEMBLING THE REAR SPAR OF THE HORIZONTAL
STABILIZER
Match the skins to the rear
spar channels. Cleco both HS-601 skin to an HS-603PP rear
spar channel with clecos in every three or four holes. |
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SEPTEMBER 3, 2001
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| Holes final drilled, using #40
drill. I am about to drill the first actual time, live on
the aircraft, just like the first shovel full of dirt at a ground breaking.
Maybe if it ever gets finished, I will have a special gold rivet
cast for the final rivet just like the Golden Spike at Promontory
Point near my home. |
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| SEPTEMBER
4, 2001 |
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Nice to be able to compose all
these pictures, last obsession was being a computer nerd and
have two networked computers in work shop with full photo
and image possessing capability. It says "now the skins
are drilled, mark them so you can return the same spar
with the same side up, makes sense. Says it is OK to use a
light punch mark. Trying to find all the front spar and
skeleton pieces seen on the table. Panic, not able to find
HS-609PP flange strips. |
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SEPTEMBER 7,
2001(slide4) |
| After panic subsided I got to
thinking about the shipping box. I had just put it in the
back of my Pickup which is in my storage area, and was
going to throw it away but thought I might use the box
again, like to ship it somewhere else that I might have to
go have further schooling. Well sure enough I checked the
box and there it was. being rather large pieces (the
long narrow pieces) they
had packed them under a piece of cardboard in the bottom
and taped it to the box. It was like discovering gold when
I saw it. So check your box good when you receive it. |
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| SEPTEMBER
20, 2001 |
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You can see where the long
HS-609PP Flange and the hinge brackets will be attached to
the rear HS Spar. Also I got the hinge brackets identified.
It is pretty easy as the different brackets have different
hole patterns where they attach to the rear spar. It tells
you to drill the holes in one of them, (The one with
the big round hole that has the bearing in between, using one
to use as a template to drill the other one. |
| SEPTEMBER
24, 2001(slide6) |
| Instructions say it would be
difficult to dimple the HS-603 PP spar flanges for the
rivets that attach the skin with the HS-609 PP bars
riveted in place so dimple the flanges now. |
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| SEPTEMBER
25, 2001 |
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Join the HS-609PP flange
strips with the HS-603PPs, carefully aligning rivet holes.
Drill through these holes in the work surface with a #30
Drill, clecoing every second or third hole. Make sure you
radius the end and edges of Strips. A vixen file and some
emery cloth seems to work well.
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SEPTEMBER
29, 2001 |
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Cleco the
HS-412PP and HS413PP elevator hinge brackets to the
HS-603PPs spar and run a #30 drill through all the holes. Gloss
should be broken with
scotch bright before painting. (Here is a close-up of one
of the HS-412PP's)
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OCTOBER
2, 2001 |
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Parts have
been primed with DP50 a very good two part epoxy
primer. Locate rivet holes that attach HS-606, Hs-608,
& HS-405 Ribs and the HS-412PP & HS-411PP hinge
brackets. Put tape over them to prevent accidentally
riveting these holes before ribs attached. Rivet the
HS-609PP bars to the HS-603 Spar Channels
Note---- These quick
grip clamps work well to hold it to the table, they
have already paid for themselves and I am sure will
have many uses. |
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OCTOBER
4, 2001(slide 10) |
| Rear Spar is
completed I am pretty happy with it, A couple of small
mistakes, Like rivet one of the hinge brackets in the
wrong hole. Learned to drill out rivets. I put it the
jig to see how it looked. To see how I made my jig
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October
6, 2001 |
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This step I
have been putting off as long as I can. The
instructions just say read the blue print and
fabricate the part. I wish there were a few more
details on fabricating the parts. The best diagram I
seen thus far is on Phil's
website I will try to document how I do it in a
little more detail, but as of right now I am still a
little in the dark.
I received my wing
and fuselage order confirmation from Van's today, ETA
approximately July 2002. That sounds like a long way
off, but at the rate I am going it probably isn't.
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| October
6, 2001 |
| My friend
Ferney who helps me with my Computer network and
building computers, marking the center line of HS-610
We have built a lot of
computers for my home which I run a network between
home and my wife's office and I am able to do a lot of
work at home for her using remote access. I name all
the network computers after airplanes and Tiger stuff.
I put a decal on them, and a pin thru the box. It is
actually quite useful in identifying network
computers, Tiger, P-51, P-40, P-38 and so on. The
one I am working on in the picture right now is AVG (The original Flying Tigers) It has my scanner and my
photo processing hardware attached to it, and I use it
a lot to publish the webs pages using Microsoft
FrontPage which creates the webpages.
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October
6, 2001 |
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Fabricate the
HS-810 and HS-614 splice angle as shown in drawing
3PP. Edges must be filed and polished to a satin
finish.
It is easier if the
holes are drilled before the ends and flanges are tapered. So
pilot drill the HS-810 and Hs-614, preferably in a
drill press with a #40 drill bit. Then carefully cut
the tapers on the ends of the flanges, using the holes
as center points for the rounded ones. |
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