{"id":420,"date":"2013-11-24T16:54:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T16:54:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-13T02:16:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T02:16:01","slug":"applied-filler-to-vertical-sta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2013\/11\/24\/applied-filler-to-vertical-sta\/","title":{"rendered":"Applied Filler to Vertical Stabilizer and Rudder, Glued Trailing Edge of Right Wingtip"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can clearly see the profile of the vertical stabilizer tip and rudder tip together don’t form a single continuous curve.<\/p>\n

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You can also see that the gap between them isn’t uniform. \u00a0I’ll fill this later to create a uniform 3\/16″ gap which is the same as the lower horizontal gap.<\/p>\n

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I mixed up some filler and applied it to both fairings. \u00a0You can see that I built up the rudder tip quite a bit. \u00a0I also widened the rudder horn about 1\/16″. \u00a0I’ll sand all this down with the rudder clamped in trail so that they’re perfectly faired together.<\/p>\n

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With the internal stiffeners glassed in, I could glue the trailing edge back together. \u00a0I mixed up some epoxy\/flox and put a bead down the back. \u00a0I used a bunch of small spring clamps to hold the trailing edge closed while the epoxy cures. \u00a0The clamp in the back is holding a couple of scrap pieces of aluminum angles and span the gap between the aileron and wingtip ensuring that the wingtip perfectly follows the edges of the aileron.<\/p>\n

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You can also see some epoxy\/flox on the outer edge of the wingtip. \u00a0I needed to add a little bit so that the outer edge of the wingtip could be filed to a straight line.<\/p>\n

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You can clearly see the profile of the vertical stabilizer tip and rudder tip together don’t form a single continuous curve. You can also see that the gap between them isn’t uniform. \u00a0I’ll fill this later to create a uniform 3\/16″ gap which is the same as the lower horizontal gap. I mixed up some … 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":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empennage","category-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","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=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3613,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/3613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}