March 17, 2016 – I honestly don’t remember the sequence for the assembly of the stabilizer, so I called Van’s to get the manual pages for the stab. They emailed me the entire current manual. That was nice.
So now I have the sequence a new builder would follow. I started by positioning the new doublers on the spar channels and drilling them.
The upper and lower reinforcement angles needed to be tapered and bent to fit. I tapered the ends and filed them to size. I’ll poilsh them when everything is drilled. Each end is to be bent 6 degrees. I used my protractor and the vise.
I clecoed the angles in place on the spars and drilled them.
The inboard forward ribs need to be trimmed to fit to the spar. One left and one right.
To get ready to drill the ribs, I clecoed the spar in place with the old structure, then clecoed one side of the skin in place.
After drawing centerlines on all flanges of the ribs, I slid them in place and drilled them. I really don’t see that I need to flute these ribs to straighten them. They lie flat on the table already.
With that side done, I’ll cleco the other skin in place and do the same thing.
Time: 6:40
