LettersFromFlyoverCountry
Well Known Member
I've had this "new" rudder sitting around and have avoided building it until now. It's all done, more or less, cept for the leading edge -- no big deal . The trailing edge is currently ProSealed together and clecoed to the angle and curing.
But I'll be darned if these instructions make sense (and by the way, talk bout a reverse culture shock. Once you get to the fuselage, you don't have much in the way of narrative in the instructions. But then to go BACK to when there was a lot of narrative, man, there's just a lot of useless words there gumming comprehension up. But I digress).
Here's the way, I THINK the instructions say.
1) Pull all the rivets in and tape 'em down. Flip, rudder over.
2) Pound against a backrivet plate but not all the way in (using what, by the way? A mushroom set or a backrivet set?. Do every 5th one or so.
3) Go back and do the others, but not all the way.
4) Flip it over and smash 'em.
This last part confuses me because the instructions talk about not final riveting all the rivets in the same direction (?) because you could get a "hook effect." Huh? I have no clue what that's trying to say.
And do I have the instructions correct that in the final step, what used to be the driven side is now going to be against the backrivet plate?
But I'll be darned if these instructions make sense (and by the way, talk bout a reverse culture shock. Once you get to the fuselage, you don't have much in the way of narrative in the instructions. But then to go BACK to when there was a lot of narrative, man, there's just a lot of useless words there gumming comprehension up. But I digress).
Here's the way, I THINK the instructions say.
1) Pull all the rivets in and tape 'em down. Flip, rudder over.
2) Pound against a backrivet plate but not all the way in (using what, by the way? A mushroom set or a backrivet set?. Do every 5th one or so.
3) Go back and do the others, but not all the way.
4) Flip it over and smash 'em.
This last part confuses me because the instructions talk about not final riveting all the rivets in the same direction (?) because you could get a "hook effect." Huh? I have no clue what that's trying to say.
And do I have the instructions correct that in the final step, what used to be the driven side is now going to be against the backrivet plate?