Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Rudder Taking Shape

I got the rudder temporarily clecoed together. This is one of those deceptive stages of building. It looks almost complete but there's really a lot left to finish. From this stage, I will match drill all the holes. That means a lot of cleco moving. Then, I'll disassemble everything and deburr all the holes. Next, all the external holes and the corresponding understructure gets dimpled. Then comes edge finishing, scuffing, cleaning and priming. Oh, and don't forget fitting the lead counterweight and epoxying the trailing edge wedge and rolling the leading edge. All that before riveting. But...it does look like an airplane part for now!