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A little tail!

General building discussions, not model specific.
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Jerry Folkerts
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A little tail!

Post by Jerry Folkerts » Mon Nov 13, 2017 2:31 pm

My wife had more fun than she could have ever imagined today -- we put the horizontal stab and elevator on the Super Rebel. It only took four hours of swearing and every curved pliers Harbor Freight had on sale! 8)
Jerry Folkerts
SW Colorado
SR 2500 #093
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Re: A little tail!

Post by Washington Rebel » Mon Nov 13, 2017 3:59 pm

Without pictures it didn't happen.
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Re: A little tail!

Post by rogerk » Mon Nov 13, 2017 6:57 pm

I hate removing and refitting the stab. Your wife and mine would have a lot to discuss as I spent most of my long build time on my own so my amazing wife had to learn about a lot of things like how to rivet.
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Re: A little tail!

Post by Rebel541 » Tue Nov 14, 2017 12:30 am

YEP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When we got to the bit in the manual where it said "climb inside the tailcone and drill from the inside OUT ..... I took a ruler and measured the width of the tailcone - then put the ruler up against me ............... and then up against Wendy .......... and then threw in a few pillows - and said "In ya get !"
Rick "Biggus" Harper in OZ
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Re: A little tail! WITH PICTURES

Post by Jerry Folkerts » Tue Nov 14, 2017 1:06 pm

Here are a couple of pics I took today. Got everything on with castellated nuts and cotter pins. The black on the front of the horizontal stab is from a Cessna 180. Found it new on EBAY at reasonable price, had to cut it down a bit. Used a 3M product to glue it on. I'm missing my heated shop!
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Jerry Folkerts
SW Colorado
SR 2500 #093
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http://www.thepedalrv.com


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Re: A little tail!

Post by Washington Rebel » Tue Nov 14, 2017 6:10 pm

Nice Jerry
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Re: A little tail!

Post by Zrinko » Fri Dec 15, 2017 3:54 pm

Nice job Jerry! Looking good!


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