Spent some time this evening bending the HS-810 and HS-814 front spar angles.
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.
Today consisted of started working on the front spar. This includes dealing with the HS-00003 doubler that was part of a Van’s Service Bulletin (sb014-01-31). You have to match drill the doubler from the two front spar reinforcement angles.
The directions are a little vague since this is a new update. In one case it references rivet lines in the drawing that don’t exist (they do show on the Service Bulletin though).
Finished rounding the stiffeners, and then match drilled the stiffeners to the rear spar. Clecoed all the elevator brackets in place and started prepping the ribs for assembly.
Today I prepped the rear spar for the stiffeners and match drilled the center elevator bearings.
Today we inventoried the Empennage kit parts in preparation for starting some actual work.
Today the empennage kit arrived safe and sound.
