Nov 30th – The kit consists of many preformed and predrilled parts which all need cleaning up and finishing to a greater or lesser degree.
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- …..edges filed smooth and deburred.
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- Rough part ……
Dec 3rd – After 5 hours of work, I have one finished component and a pile of prepared parts and can cross off the first box on the build tree.
Dec 5th – Next stage is preparing the elevator skins which are cut from a 48″ long piece of preformed Aluminum. As this is something I haven’t done before I marked up a practice cut before marking and cutting the finished piece. Definitely a case of measure five or six times, cut once!
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- Stock piece marked up.
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- Rough cut.
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- Filed and deburred.
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- Right Elevator Skin.
Dec 6th – Cutting the second skin progressed much quicker leaving time for more parts preparation.
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- ….and a growing pile of parts.
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- Another box crossed off ….
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- LH and RH Elevator Skins.
Dec 9th – More preparation and cleaning up results in another box crossed off. Another session or two and it will be time to start making some more finished components.
Dec 11th – Finished preparing everything for the horizontal tail, time to start putting things together!
