More Front Spar

Hours this entry: 1.5
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Spent this evening making the relief holes for the bend on HS702. Once I had one side complete and filed, I clecoed them together to make sure they matched. It also makes it easier to open up and round the second hole with the file when you have a guide from the first set you did.

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I had a little bit of confusion on how to trim the inboard edges of HS702 so that we maintained the minimum edge distance for the rivets on the top. It shows it clearly in the drawing, but at this point the rivet holes had yet to be drilled, so it’s hard to know what that distance is. Finally decided to take a measurement from the skin to see where the hole would be match drilled as well as put the skin on the spar, cleco the outer holes and see if my measurement made sense.

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A few more steps and we can start assembling so it might actually look like an airplane part.

Front Spar Angles

Hours this entry: 1.0
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Spent some time this evening bending the HS-810 and HS-814 front spar angles.

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It looks a little crude, but it was accomplished by putting a 1/8th radius on a solid piece of wood and clamping it down with the radius right at the bend angle. Bending to 6 degrees was easy with just small taps of a hammer that were checked with a protractor. The first piece was used as the check of the second spar angle to make sure they were uniform.

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