678E update and Thanks!
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 5:33 pm
Michelle and I are still plugging away at our second-hand Elite #678. The
Vertical tail and Rudder are complete! And now it's onto the horizontal stab.
We cleaned and inspected the horizontal tail today (until it hit over 100deg F
in our garage in Arizona!). Just like the rudder ant vertical fin, the horizontal
tail was only rivetted on one side, with the top just being clecoed.
Up to this point, everything has been in accordance with the builder's
manual. But today I found the first mistake. Turns out the previous builder
put the bottom external doubler (W-326) between the skin and the spar
instead of on top of the skin. So looks like next weekend will be a lot of rivet
removal to undo this. Wouldn't be to bad except the bottom doubler has the
rear stab mount poking through it, so I'm going to have to remove a metric
butt-load of rivets to slide that thing out of there.
Anyhow, that's where we're at on 678E. Also wanted to thank everybody
again for your help (knowingly or unknowingly). I tend to sift through the
archives on here quite a bit and read the digest daily. Lots of good info!
Blue skies,
~Flex
Elite #678
Tucson, Arizona
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Vertical tail and Rudder are complete! And now it's onto the horizontal stab.
We cleaned and inspected the horizontal tail today (until it hit over 100deg F
in our garage in Arizona!). Just like the rudder ant vertical fin, the horizontal
tail was only rivetted on one side, with the top just being clecoed.
Up to this point, everything has been in accordance with the builder's
manual. But today I found the first mistake. Turns out the previous builder
put the bottom external doubler (W-326) between the skin and the spar
instead of on top of the skin. So looks like next weekend will be a lot of rivet
removal to undo this. Wouldn't be to bad except the bottom doubler has the
rear stab mount poking through it, so I'm going to have to remove a metric
butt-load of rivets to slide that thing out of there.
Anyhow, that's where we're at on 678E. Also wanted to thank everybody
again for your help (knowingly or unknowingly). I tend to sift through the
archives on here quite a bit and read the digest daily. Lots of good info!
Blue skies,
~Flex
Elite #678
Tucson, Arizona
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