Well, first major setback .. I get to rebuild my rudder .. almost had it buttoned up (literally about 10 rivets left and after that just had to roll the skins) and it was a really good assembly .. then got distracted and put a huge smiley in the skin with the rivet gun .. so I figured, and this was my mistake, I'll just put a bucking bar underneath it inside and smooth it out a bit which resulted in a crease and ruining the skin.
I started to disassemble and about 20 minutes into drilling out rivets and looking at what had to come apart I decided it was going to be easier just to rebuilt it from scratch. Vans gets my CC on Monday.
What stinks is the one thing I was really worried about was the trailing edge and that was just about the easiest part of the rudder.
Feeling defeated but I'll consider today a training session and build it better the second time around.
I started to disassemble and about 20 minutes into drilling out rivets and looking at what had to come apart I decided it was going to be easier just to rebuilt it from scratch. Vans gets my CC on Monday.
What stinks is the one thing I was really worried about was the trailing edge and that was just about the easiest part of the rudder.
Feeling defeated but I'll consider today a training session and build it better the second time around.
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