{"id":1284,"date":"2009-03-20T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-14T18:52:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T18:52:58","slug":"bent-elevator-trailing-edges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2009\/03\/20\/bent-elevator-trailing-edges\/","title":{"rendered":"Bent Elevator Trailing Edges"},"content":{"rendered":"

I fabricated a simple bending brake out of a 2×8 and a bunch of hinges. \u00a0I’ve heard other builders complain that they didn’t get a crisp bend between hinges, so I went a little overboard on the hinges. \u00a0They were on sale for 96\u00a2, so it didn’t cost much.<\/p>\n

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\nAfter reading the experiences of others on vansairforce.net<\/a>, I put the trailing edge up against the hinges and bent the skins basically flat (until the stiffeners were touching the opposite skins). \u00a0They spring back to roughly where they will sit once the spar is attached. \u00a0You have to put a surprising amount of force on this. \u00a0I basically climbed up on top of it and bounced (and I weigh 230lbs). \u00a0The whole process for both skins only took about 5 minutes.<\/p>\n

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\nHere’s what you’re looking for. \u00a0The skin stays flat right up until the trailing edge radius.<\/p>\n

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I fabricated a simple bending brake out of a 2×8 and a bunch of hinges. \u00a0I’ve heard other builders complain that they didn’t get a crisp bend between hinges, so I went a little overboard on the hinges. \u00a0They were on sale for 96\u00a2, so it didn’t cost much. After reading the experiences of others … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empennage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3897,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/3897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}