08/06/11 - Completed Horiz Stab
August 6, 2011 The horizontal stabilizer is hung on the wall Looks beautiful to me. Return To Empennage
07/11/11 - Horizontal Stabilizer Rivet
Dan finished riveting the frame together. He put the skins on with clecos: Here is a close up of the leading edge, looks really nice. I am glad our tech councilor suggested to get a good bend on the leading edge. Here is the leading edge looking from the outboard side: Here is the …
07/10/11 - Horizontal Stabilizer Spars Assembly
We assembled the complete horizontal stabilizer frame and skins one last time to make sure all the parts were in the right place. We started with the (rear) main spar assembly (SNX-T3-01). The inner rivets are fine, but the outer ones are closer to the flange so you cannot get the rivet gun in there without deflecting …
06/28/11 - Prime Horizontal Stabilizer Parts
Dan primed the horizintal stabilizer parts and skins. We had gotten a gallon of 3M Mar Hyde Self Etch Primer. Dan used his compressed air paint spray gun. He has a lot more control over the spray width and delivery than with the spray cans we’ve used so far. He put a really nice light …
06/25/11 - Horiz Stab Dimple and Prep
Dan dimpled the hoizintal stab frame and skins and I finished preparing the frame parts for priming. We found a used DRDT-2 dimpler for sale on the Vans Air Force website last fall and used it with a 120 degree pop rivet dimple die from Avery (We also evaluated the Cleveland die and the results …
04/30/11 - Horizontal Stab Tips
Dan used the same method from the vertical stab tip for the horizontal tips. However we decided to rivet the tips since we don’t think we will need to pull them off. So Dan created a strip of sheetmetal that mounts between the skin and the frame and extends out under the tip. …
04/23/11 - Hoizontal Stab Skins
The date on thsi if between March and May 2011. We had created a CAD model of the horizonatal stab skin. The plotter has 36″ wide roll of paper and the part is begger than that. So we had to split the drawing and put alignment marks on them to mate them. If you read …
01/08/11 - Completed Horizontal Stabilzer Frame
Saturday Jan 8, 2011 (5 hours) We finished locating and match drilling the spars We had not attached the T06-06 Clip to the T06-03 Forward Spar Fitting. To locate those horizontally the plans show a dimension from the center of a mounting hole on the Forward Spar Fitting, a tricky measurement to make. We used a centerline …
01/05/11 - Hoizontal Stab Assembly 2
January 2 and 3, 2010 Tim and I worked for a few hours on the afternoon of January second verifying the layout and beginning the match drilling of the stablizer. I worked a few more hours that evening and then finished a large part of the match drilling with #40 drill the following evening in …
01/01/11 - Horizontal Stab Assembly 1
Jan 1, 2011 With the table level to provide a good platform for match drilling of the horizontal stablizer, the layout of the ribs and spars are printed on segments of 8-1/2″ x 14″ paper. Two reasons for this. I don’t have a large plotter and the one we’ve used at work for some tests …