Jun 12, 2020     Elevator Trim Tab - (1.5 hours) Category: Tail Feathers

Drilled out to A4 and clecoed the trim tab into position. youtube:

  Jun 08, 2020     Elevator and Engine Parts Inventory - (4 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers

Worked on the passenger side nose skin (in some pics elevator is upside down -- trim tab is pilot side). And the cylinder kit for my 3.0L engine. Once the elevator is done I'm moving on to engine construction, get the cylinders and pistons in. Then also got the trim tab placed and ready for drilling.

  Jun 05, 2020     Elevator Nose Skin / Engine Components - (2 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers

More drilling on elevator nose skins (dimple drill first, then remove and drill all the way for proper alignment). Fit perfect, drilled out to A4.

Corvair engine parts arrived from SPA.

  Jun 03, 2020     Elevator Trim Tab Channel / Nose Skin Placement - (3 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers

Got trim channel drilled out and placed. Started nose skin placement. Came up with a way to get holes on skin drilled perfectly even though removing the clecos on the spar leads to minor (.5 to 1 mil) misalignments of spar and tip rib. Basically: do not drill all the way through the skin with the slightly misaligned skeleton because the skeleton would have possibly misaligned holes with skin. Drilled part way through skin, removed, drilled rest of way. Worked perfect: Absolute alignment of holes in skin and skeleton when clecoed together. (have vid hopefully on youtube someday ...

  Jun 02, 2020     Trim Tab Channel - (1 hour) Category: Tail Feathers

Cut new block and sanded so I could use mallet on trim tab channel to make it fit outboard tip rib.

  Jun 01, 2020     Trim Tab Channel Issue - (1 hour)       Category: Tail Feathers

Ran into a problem with the trim tab channel. My solution of whacking on the aluminum a bit to get the "joggle" of the outboard part of the channel smaller to fit into the tip rib correctly was verified by Roger Dubbert at Zenith via email. Measuring, making a form block. The outboard side was about 2 mils to wide ...

  Mar 27, 2020     Pick Up At Estes - (2 hours)       Category: Tail Feathers

Went to Estes in SA to bring Tail kit, Slats / Flaperons kits back to shop. Unloaded parts.

  Mar 02, 2020     Zenith Order - (1 hour) Category: Tail Feathers

Ordered Zenit Tail / Slats / Flaperons from Zenith. 2 week lead time. Shipping to Estes in San Antonio.