Today I have made a lot of progress.
I have match drilled all holes in the rudder, but then I ran out of cleco's again. Page 7/6 calls for drilling and clecoing every hole both in spar and in the trailing edge. I started with spar (after I match drilled all stiffeners and ribs). By the end I had maybe 15 clecos left. So I decided to keep clecos in every other hole in the spar. That had freed up quite a few of them.
Then I drilled and clecoed every hole in the trailing edge.
After that I have disassembled the rudder and deburred holes and everything else that was not. There was quite a lot of deburring, but it is done.
I then proceeded to dimple ribs and stiffeners.
Interesting, plans call for dimpling of bottom rib (R-1004A/B) and spar (R-1002). I used my pneumatic squeezer to dimple stiffeners with #40 (3/32) dies. Dimples look very nice. However, when I dimpled bottom rib, dimples did not look very pronounced. A rivet does not set flush in there. I decided to ask Vans - should the bottom rib and spar flanges be countersunk instead of dimpled? Let's see what they say.
Aside from skins and spar everything is now dimpled.
Not much to show, but here is the rudder after match drilling during disassembly.
Hours today 7:45.
Total hours on rudder 12:45
Total hours on build 82:45.
I have match drilled all holes in the rudder, but then I ran out of cleco's again. Page 7/6 calls for drilling and clecoing every hole both in spar and in the trailing edge. I started with spar (after I match drilled all stiffeners and ribs). By the end I had maybe 15 clecos left. So I decided to keep clecos in every other hole in the spar. That had freed up quite a few of them.
Then I drilled and clecoed every hole in the trailing edge.
After that I have disassembled the rudder and deburred holes and everything else that was not. There was quite a lot of deburring, but it is done.
I then proceeded to dimple ribs and stiffeners.
Interesting, plans call for dimpling of bottom rib (R-1004A/B) and spar (R-1002). I used my pneumatic squeezer to dimple stiffeners with #40 (3/32) dies. Dimples look very nice. However, when I dimpled bottom rib, dimples did not look very pronounced. A rivet does not set flush in there. I decided to ask Vans - should the bottom rib and spar flanges be countersunk instead of dimpled? Let's see what they say.
Aside from skins and spar everything is now dimpled.
Not much to show, but here is the rudder after match drilling during disassembly.
Hours today 7:45.
Total hours on rudder 12:45
Total hours on build 82:45.
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