Thursday, September 20, 2018

More rudder assembly

The aft bottom rib to left skin rivet must get a blind rivet due to the lack of space for a bucking bar or squeezer.  The rivet tail hits the rivet below it so you have to push it in as you pull it to make room.

Next is riveting the bottom rib to the left skin.  Squeezed these.

All done!

And next is blind pop rivets for the spar to shear clips.

All done!  Makes me jealous of the RV-12 builders.

Next are some blind rivets on the rudder horn.

And some more on the rudder stop striker plates.  These are countersunk.

And finally some solid rivets of both flavors on the very bottom.  Squeezed these.

Next I installed clecos in the spar in advance of riveting the skins to the spar flanges.  That is tomorrow.


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