Horizontal Stabilizer
January 24, 2004

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Step 1: Put both HS1001 Skins back in the  cradles. Cleco all the HS-905 Nose ribs in place, then rivet them to the skins using the rivets shown on Page 8-14. figure 1.

I bought an old adjustable table from Kenny's Dad who works at a local surplus store, painted it up (check the coral pink color I had matched to match the great old work bench I got from them, it was the hot color in the fifties when I was a kid, everything from my dream car a 55 Ford Crown Victoria with a white interior .) and it works real well as I can get the work at just the right height.

Sprayed primer down inside on the surface of the skins.

Step 2:  Insert the front spar/inspar rib assembly into the skins and cleco it to the nose ribs and skins. Using the rives shown in Figure , rivet the assembly to the nose ribs. (If access to the two inboard nose ribs is limited, making riveting difficult, they can be riveted after the rest of the horizontal's construction is completed. The horizontal can then be removes from the cradles giving better access.
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Step 1: Using the rivets shown in Figure 1 rivet the last two HS-904 Inspar Ribs, on each side of the stabilizer, to the HS-1002 Front Spar Web. (Next to end 904 uses a LP4-3 Pop Rivet and the end 904 uses a AN470AD4-4 which we used the squeezer on)

Step 2: Rivet the HS-1001 Skins to the flanges of the front spar assembly. Make sure to capture the flanges of the inspar ribs where they joggle under the flanges of the front spar assembly.

Step 3: Starting from the front spar assembly, rivet the skins to the flanges of the HS-1004 Inspar ribs up to the HS-10014 and-1015 Stringers.

 

Step 4: Rivet the Skins to the HS-1014 and -1015 Stringers

Step 5: Rivet the skins to the HS-904 Inspar Ribs and the remainder of the HS-1004 Inspar Ribs

Step 6:cleco the rear spar assembly into position, then rivet it to the in inspar ribs using the rivets shown in Figure 1. ( Note that was sent as addendum to plans #Place manufactured head of all rivets on the spar to provide elevator clearance.

Install the two snap bushings, shown in the figure, into the holes indicated.

Step 7: Finish the Horizontal Stabilizer by riveting the skins to the flanges of the rear spar.

Horizontal Finished except for a couple of the larger rivers in the nose ribs, starting on Elevators

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