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MIKE HOWE'S RV7
CONSTRUCTION RUDDER Rudder Page 1 Rudder Page 2 Rudder Page 3 Rudder Page 4 Rudder Page 5
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December 9, 2001 Drilled all the holes in skin to ribs and parts, disassembled and am going to assemble the skeleton and shoot a final primer coat over everything. |
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Drilled all the holes in skin to ribs and parts, disassembled |
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December 9, 2001 When I ordered the tools from Avery in the RV Kit it included these vise grips with a dimple die welded on and they are proving to be very valuable to dimple in tight places like the last hole on the trailing edge.
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Vise Grip dimple die |
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December 9, 2001 The instructions say place a finger tip size daub of RTV compound I used Permatex UltraBlue, p/n77B) spread the RTV so that it adheres to the ends of the opposing stiffeners and, when cured, joins them, making them act like a small rib.
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Using Permatex |
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December 9, 2001 Finally check over everything, made sure a holes dimpled and clecoed the rudder back together to start squeezing the rivets.
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Rivet Rudder |
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December 9, 2001 Finally got to use my pneumatic pop riveter on the top CS4-4 rivets of the R404, it really works great.
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Pop Riveting |
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December 9, 2001 Rolling the leading edge. I bought some black pipe and a pipe clamp, taped the pipe to the skin and rolled it up. The picture is a little blurry but you can get the idea. Don't bend it to much and you will have to work it with your hands to get it to line up.
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Rolling leading edge |
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December 9, 2001 Using the rolling tool
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Using the rolling tool |
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December 9, 2001 Back in jig ready to do final rivets in the rudder
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Riveting |
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December 9, 2001 Ferney came by tonight to build a computer for my wife's office, I had him do a couple of the pop rivets
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Ferney pop riveting |
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Put rudder on to see how it fits, everything looks real good |
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Test Fit |
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