March 15, 2004 - Rudder |
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The Rudder is different from the HS and VS in that instead of one folded skin, there are two flat skins. |
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Each skin half has eight stiffeners that will ultimately
be riveted to it. These stiffeners, all 16 of them, have to be cut, trimmed,
deburred and dimpled. I used the aluminum shears to trim them. The grinder
with scotch-brite wheel, really paid for itself by making rounding of
the stiffener corners a snap. The stiffener holes were pre-drilled which
was nice. It took me three nights to do all 16 stiffeners.
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