Began riveting the skin on the rudder. Started off with putting a dab of silicone near the trailing edge and the stiffeners.
With the longeron yoke I was able to get all the rivets inside R-710.
The Rudder right before finishing it up.
Finished up riveting the Horizontal’s spars, before I moved onto riveting on the Left side skins.
While I was waiting for an extra set of hands, I started to rivet together the Rudder skeleton.
The instructions give you the option to use a blind rivet on the Rudder horn, but I opted to squeeze them. I had to put the shop head on the outside, but they came out pretty good.
The Horizontal skeleton ready for the first skin:
Once my extra set of hands showed up, we started to put the left Horizontal skin on.
Received my new R-710, so I was able to proceed with the Rudder skeleton today. Got everything together and match drilled, now it’s time to take it apart and prep for primer.
Worked on getting the rudder skeleton frame mocked up, but ended up messing up my first part.
Just like I read many times, I too trimmed R-710 too much, so the edge distance for the rivets wasn’t sufficient. Oh well, time to order a new one.
I also fabricated R-717 and R-716 from the flat stock.
