Title: worked on rudder, started elevators
Finished riveting everything on the rudder except the leading & trailing edge. I'm still unhappy with the fit of the trailing edge wedge. I sent the picture below to vans support, but it looks to me like the dimples aren't nesting properly. I don't see how I can countersink it any more, because it's already knife edged. I'm thinking maybe the countersinks aren't perfectly aligned with the face of the wedge. Cleveland tools sells a fixture to hold the wedge flat so that you can countersink with a microstop in a drill press, so I ordered one of those today and a new wedge from Vans. Once they arrive I'm going to try it again and see if I get a better result. I've seen pictures of other guys who had the same problem and filled the t.e. with pro seal or epoxy after the fact, so that may be as good as it gets, but it just bothers me that it doesn't seem to fit better than that. I also emailed the tech support guys to see if they had any suggestions. Took a break while I was thinking about this and went down to the yard store and bought a 5' long chunk of 3/8" thick aluminum angle to make sure the t.e. gets bonded up straight when I get that far. One of the bonuses of living here in Wichita. They sell aluminum by the pound, and that piece of extrusion only cost me 9 bucks. When I got back, I went ahead and fabricated all the elevator stiffeners. Tomorrow I'll likely start on the elevators and come back to this rudder issue in a few days.


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