Title: Back to working on the leading edge rolling
Couple afternoon/evening's worth of work. I just wish there was a simpler process for this as it is very time consuming and frustrating. But it's like that for most builders, nothing new here, it just is a pain. So back and forth with different bar sizes. The smaller diameter bar gets used first to set the initial bend so that the area with the holes will lay flat. Then come back with the larger diameter rod to put a more significant bend in it. I did managed to drill a new hole in the spar, through the lightening hole in the elevator horn, this will serve as a hole to put the wiring through for the electric trim servo motor. I don't like the idea of running that wiring through the same hole that is going to have the threaded rod end for the trim tab push rod going through it. That's what the plans call for but not a fan of that idea. Biggest thing to watch for when doing these rolls is to not crease the part of the skin that sits on top of the spar. That's very easy to do if you do not put pressure on the rod away from the spar as you are wrenching on it. Anyways just lots of bending, hand shaping, more bending, more hand shaping, all just trying different things to try to get the two edges to overlap eventually which isn't very easy to do to be honest. The longer the piece of skin, the harder it is to get right. So the middle section is the biggest challenge. Once I was happy with the fit, I match drilled each hole to #30 size to accommodate the AD41ABS pull rivets and riveted two of the sections together for the night which was a good place to stop. The long section has a little bit of pillowing which my OCD is not thrilled about but I spent hours trying to correct that without much luck so build on at this point, it will be out of side and out of mind. So nothing too exciting to report. I do have the new parts from Van's for the trim tab so will begin to rebuild that here in the next few days.


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