Another productive day in the Garage. With great weather outside, I was able to spend time working while my girls were out playing in the yard.
With most of the rudder components fabricated, it was time to start assembling the rudder so I could final drill everything. Got the skeleton assembled, then added the skins and it started to look like a rudder!
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Because this is a control surface, you need to take a little longer to ensure you are not adding a twist into the part. This requires a more measured approach to match drilling and adding clecos for EVERY hole along the spare (and trailing edge). This is a lot of clecos and it towards the end of the day my arms and hands were quite sore.
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With the drilling done, it’s time to take everything apart and start to deburr everything. By the end of the day, I had completed all of the deburring except for the skins. Tomorrow I’m planning to put the bend on the trailing edge using the edge forming tool (hopefully without messing it up). Not sure when I’ll have enough time to clean and prime the parts. This may not happen until Saturday, so I’ll have to figure out if I’ll start the first few steps of the next section, or if I’ll just put my toys away for a few days.