I had a rare full day out at the airport and made some nice progress today.
At the end of the day I had all the skin stiffeners riveted to the rudder skin and after I had cleaned up the workbenches I set up my bending brake in preparation of bending the rudder trailing edge. My brake is made from 2X4s with the "work" being done on the 2" surface. Just for grins I placed the skin in the brake and began to close the brake to check if everything was adjusted right and it just spit the rudder out of the brake. Out of curiosity I tired it lightly a few more times, same reaction. I was now running late for a dinner engagement so I didn't get a chance to tinker around with it more. I can't imagine I will have different results when I start applying pressure for real so my question is, did anybody else run into this issue and how did you resolve it?
At the end of the day I had all the skin stiffeners riveted to the rudder skin and after I had cleaned up the workbenches I set up my bending brake in preparation of bending the rudder trailing edge. My brake is made from 2X4s with the "work" being done on the 2" surface. Just for grins I placed the skin in the brake and began to close the brake to check if everything was adjusted right and it just spit the rudder out of the brake. Out of curiosity I tired it lightly a few more times, same reaction. I was now running late for a dinner engagement so I didn't get a chance to tinker around with it more. I can't imagine I will have different results when I start applying pressure for real so my question is, did anybody else run into this issue and how did you resolve it?