Title: Nutplates and dimpling the rudder
The last of the backordered parts for the empennage kit finally arrived, so I now have the nutplates and the VA-140 trailing edge extrusion. I started by fitting the trailing edge into place, marking the needed length, and then cutting it on the bandsaw. Next, I partially disassembled the rudder so that I could cleco the 3 nutplates into place and then squeezed the rivets into place with my hand squeezer. Now, I could cleco the skins back onto the rudder and do some final drilling of the holes in the trailing edge. The rest of the skin holes appeared to already be final sized, but I did do some light deburring on holes that seemed to need it. Then I disassembled the skins and took them over the DRDT2 dimpling table to dimple all of the holes that will receive flush rivets later. What's next? I need to machine-countersink the holes in the trailing edge extrusion, and then maybe start some back-riveting of the stiffeners onto the skins.


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