Wednesday, August 3, 2016

More Materials and Right Rear Ribs

I came home to this today!  Aircraft Spruce and Greg Westberry delivered on the same day.



Greg Westberry delivered the tail kit.  It is the big box in the back.  I'm going to do a full write up on the kit when I get to the tail for anyone on the fence about ordering the kit.  For now, it will stay in the box (that's so hard to do!).


The other boxes are 2 more 4x12 sheets of .020 6061-T6 and one sheet of .032 6061-T6.  I also have my piano hinge now and all of my blind rivets and the bushings (etc.) for the center section plus some other miscellaneous parts.  The big bag in the back is 4,500 blind rivets.  That's a lot of holes to drill!



All of this fired me up to bend some metal, so I made the rear ribs over the form blocks tonight.  I had already made the forms and blanks.  Here's a shot of the pieces temporarily clamped together.   Cool!

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