Rudder – Day 21 – 2 hours

Today, I rolled and riveted the leading edge. This wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Just followed Van’s instructions exactly. Use a 1 inch (outer diameter) steel pipe (abt 5 ft length) and duct taped it to the edge. Locked a pair of vice grips to it and pushed down and pulled away as I rolled the leading edge. Finished rolling both in about 15 minutes. From here…I clecoed the skins together and then final drilled all holes to #30. Unclecoed, deburred the holes, reclecoed and pop riveted it together. Tomorrow, I will drill out the bad rivets in the trailing edge and then we may be able to call this done.

Rolled and clecoed

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All done (except a few rivets in the trailing edge I need to replace).

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