Mon 12 January 2004 |
| Finished cleaning up all the edges, deburing the holes and finishing the HS skins. HS ready for priming, added the parts to the pile. | |
| Second task for the day was to cut the stiffeners for the rudder. Using the powered band saw seemed like a good way of cutting them to length, so I lined them up and set the machine going. However it tended to grab at the end of the cut and damaged a couple of longer stiffeners. | 
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| Luckily it was the first batch, so I made the damaged ones shorter and cut the second batch by hand. A much better solution. After that they all had to be marked, sanded, profiled and cleco'd out on the skins. | 
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| The cleco'd skins being match drilled to #40. All completed quite quickly. | 
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| The rest of the day / early evening we spent working through the internal structures for the rudder, deburing, sanding, drilling etc the various components. No other work on the skins completed - that is for tomorrow, otherwise a good progress today considering a later start than normal. | 
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| Lots of thought and emails back and forward to the various email lists. Thanks to Jim, Dan and Robberta for providing information. Looks like our fuselage might be about between 5/16 and 7/16 too small. Not sure of the path forward yet. | 
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