After a nice Christmas surprise package from the good folks at Cleaveland I have finished dimpling the horizontal stabilizer frame and skin. Getting ready to rivet some skins for good
Feeling pretty good about that months of careful work and much figuring is coming to fruition.
Does anyone have some tips for "peeling the skins back enough (and holding them) to allow for bucking the rivets along the forward spar? I fit the skin today and it's quite still, especially towards the tip.
Simple. Once you get the thing all clecoe'd up, you can take it out of the jig and remove the rear spar for access to the rivet tails. 1st, make sure your skin has very small tensoin at the spar - the LE must be formed almost to perfection.
You will need a couple Cherry rivets to attach the center aft ribs to the spar in final assy.
Another addition: build in a 1x1 angle (instead of the 3/4x3/4) on the front spar, and make it long enough that it has 'ears' protruding about 4" past the root nose ribs.
I have more tips if you want 'em! It just so happens I have bult a few of those parts...and taught a few how to also.
Carry on!
Mark