Finish Riveting Of The HS
12/15/2003 Filed in: Horizontal Stabilizer
Tami and I finished riveting the horizontal stabilizer. We got done riveting the skins much quicker tonight. All skin rivets were measured with the rivet gauge and he shop heads were all adequately formed. No known mistakes.
After riveting the rear spar to the horizontal stabilizer, the structure is very rigid and appears to be perfectly straight. I don't know how the casual builder (first time builder) could to this without having all the pre-punching's that comes with the Van's kit and obtain such a high quality of construction with the finished product. It would take a real craftsman if you had to lay out all the rivets manually... Love that modern technology.
After riveting the rear spar to the horizontal stabilizer, the structure is very rigid and appears to be perfectly straight. I don't know how the casual builder (first time builder) could to this without having all the pre-punching's that comes with the Van's kit and obtain such a high quality of construction with the finished product. It would take a real craftsman if you had to lay out all the rivets manually... Love that modern technology.



All that is left for this is to potentially notch the rear spar to make room for the elevator horn travel and mount the HS-411PP hinge bracket. Ooh yeah, the fiberglass tips... I am not going to worry about those until later.