{"id":1297,"date":"2009-03-06T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-14T18:28:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T18:28:53","slug":"finished-drilling-rudder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2009\/03\/06\/finished-drilling-rudder\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished Drilling Rudder"},"content":{"rendered":"

This looks a lot like the picture from yesterday, but now the rudder has been fully drilled and is ready for disassembly and prep for riveting.<\/p>\n

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\nAfter disassembling, I drilled the rudder counterweight to the R-912 counterbalance rib, dimpled the rib and countersunk the lead weight to\u00a0accommodate\u00a0the dimples.<\/p>\n

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\nYou have to make the rudder bottom attach strips from a piece of 0.032″ alclad. \u00a0Basically, you just cut these to 18″ and trim the corner as specified.<\/p>\n

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\nHere are the strips, temporarily clamped to the R-904 bottom rib to match drill with the existing holes. \u00a0Holes in the lower half of this strip will be drilled in conjunction with the fiberglass rudder bottom.<\/p>\n

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\nThe R-913 counterbalance skin in 0.032″, and because the rudder skin is 0.016″, the overlap can cause a visible joggle in the rudder skin. \u00a0Beveling the two points on each side of the counterbalance skin where these two skins overlap with the underlying structure smoothes out this transition.<\/p>\n

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This looks a lot like the picture from yesterday, but now the rudder has been fully drilled and is ready for disassembly and prep for riveting. After disassembling, I drilled the rudder counterweight to the R-912 counterbalance rib, dimpled the rib and countersunk the lead weight to\u00a0accommodate\u00a0the dimples. You have to make the rudder bottom … 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-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empennage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","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=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3881,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/3881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}