toad's RV-8

        

15 Dec 07 - Drilled Rudder Skeleton - 2.0 Hours

I cut and formed the R-716 rudder bottom attach strips and the R-717 spacer.

R-716
I then edge finished the newly formed parts.


I had some minor adjustments to get all of the rudder skeleton parts to fit together correctly, and then clecoed everything together and final-drilled all of the holes.
  Drilled Rudder Skeleton All of the rudder skeleton parts final drilled.

Then I worked on the R-713 counterbalance skin. It is difficult to get the forward edge of R-703 (rudder top rib) fluted enough to make the holes in R-713 line up, but I finally got a close enough match.

Drilled R-703 Top Rudder Rib
I used my #40 reamer on all of these predrilled holes.


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