December 23, 2015 – After the rudder pedals were in, I cleaned everything up and got out the horizontal stabilizer.
On January 31, 2014, Van’s issued a service bulletin for cracks in the horizontal stabilizer. Compliance with the SB involves a visual inspection in the problem area every year. The SB is terminated by installing a doubler mod on the forward spar of the stabilizer. It was obvious to me that since I was still building, I should do the mod and never have to worry about it. I decided to go ahead and do it before I got further involved with the build of the rest of the airplane.
The mod is started by removing the inboard ribs from the stab. I hate to remove perfectly good rivets, but it went OK.
I’ll have to continue later. Tonight is our family Christmas dinner, then there’s Christmas Day, and a little bit of work mixed in there, so I’ll be back…
Time: :55
