Well, I’ve definitely learned something about myself this weekend. After I pass the initial excitement of a completed assembly, I have a hard time repeating all of those little boring steps to get the second one done.
I’m pretty sure I experienced this on the second elevator, I’ve definitely experienced this on the left/right wings, and right now, I’m having trouble motivating enough to get finished up on this left aileron.
BUT.
The other half of this airplane isn’t going to finish itself, so let’s get to it.
A few weeks ago, I left off on the left aileron after having matchdrilled everything, so today, I got it all disassembled, and started in on the tedious crap.
Here are most of the parts (except the skin) after disassembly. Let's start prepping.
The nice thing on this second aileron is that I’ve already done everything once.
No sweat here countersinking the counterbalance pipe.
A little deeper than flush, as usual, to make plenty of room for the skin.
Oh yeah, I had forgotten to flute the nose rib between the two x’s, so I marked them with…well…x’s, so I wouldn’t forget to flute, then drill them as I was taking everything apart.
I clearly went a little overboard on the flute there. I "unfluted" a little before matchdrilling.
Then ( I guess I was bad at taking pictures today), I clecoed the skin back onto the counterbalance pipe, balanced the assembly on a 2×4 (which was part of my bending brake I had attached to my workbench), and dimpled using the die from my borrowed c-frame.
They all turned out great, like the ones on the right aileron.
Then, I got to deburring and dimpling. I worked on the ribs and reinforcement plates, leaving the spar and skins until another boring day.
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One kind-of-boring hour tonight. Maybe the next few sessions will pick up.
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