HS Tip Fairings Done
Finished up the Horizontal Stabilizer tip fairing seams. Turned out pretty good. The more I do this process, the better I get at it. I probably couldn’t fab an entire speedboat out of glass, but… Time to store the HS away.
Entries for the ‘Horizontal Stabilizer’ Category
Right Side Fairings
The right side fairings on the horizontal stabilizer are filled, glassed, filled, and ready for a shot of primer to see how they came out. Looks like they’ll turn out pretty good. I’ll move on to the left side after these are primed. Wanted to try everything out on one side first. You learn quick [...]
More Fairing Work
More sanding work on the fairing seams. On the right is a pic of the elevator after sanding the first coat of filler. West Systems 410 fills nice and sand like a charm. Glad I’m using it. The pic to the left shows the horizontal fairing gap finished off and sanded. The gap between the [...]
Horizontal Attach
Did some cleanup of the garage, errrr… RV-10 Production Plant this weekend and moved things around to try to accomplish most of the empannage attach sections. Looks like I’ll be able to do most of it, if not all. The pic shows the horizontal attached to the tailcone. Well, mostly attached. There were a few [...]
Horizontal Stabilizer Complete
Over the New Year’s holiday I managed to wrap up the horizontal stabilizer. Lots of rivets in there. But small compared to the wings I imagine. There’s about 1000 or so rivets in the skins alone. I am noticing that I am improving a great deal in my rivet shooting technique. Somewhere along the line [...]
Put It Together, Tear It Down…
In the past couple of nights I have match drilled, tore everything down, deburred, dimpled, countersunk and primed all the necessary parts. Man, deburring, dimpling, and countersinking all the holes takes a while. Of course it’s probably nothing compared to what the slow-build wings will be like. I managed to ding up one of the [...]
Started Horizontal Stabilizer
Over the Christmas holiday the family was visiting for a few days. They were able to see most of what goes on in my garage lately. My Dad and brother helped me make some real good progress on the horizontal stabilizer. Some things go a lot faster with an extra set of hands. And some [...]