SteFree RV-8
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Hi Guys,
I have now effed up three trim tabs and I am a bit frustrated. I am wondering if anyone out there would be interested in helping a brother out? If anyone is interested I would send the skin to you if you would be willing to bend the tabs for me? I could pay you for your trouble or I could pay it forward to the next builder down the line.
I have tried three different methods and the version I like best is where I made small riblets instead of bending the tabs. This one turned out the best but I could not solid rivet the trim tab horn (had to use pop rivets) and would really prefer it just be done right.
I have tried the clamping methods shown by vans but my bending blocks keep moving and I feel like sometimes it is just better to see if someone can help rather than beat my head against the wall.
I was moving along pretty well with my build until I hit this wall and now I am kind of stuck and a while the skins are not expensive it is demoralizing to keep messing them up!
If you are interested you can message me off list at steve.freeman @ syntaxds.com. (spaces in email address to help prevent scrapers from snatching email addy.)
Any help is appreciated. If nothing else, does anyone have a good set of pictures for how they did this?
Thanks in advance,
Steve
PS - this is not my first time to the airplane building rodeo (currently flying N902AL I built from kit) but this is the first time I am almost ready to throw in the towel on a part. Ugh...frustrated.
I have now effed up three trim tabs and I am a bit frustrated. I am wondering if anyone out there would be interested in helping a brother out? If anyone is interested I would send the skin to you if you would be willing to bend the tabs for me? I could pay you for your trouble or I could pay it forward to the next builder down the line.
I have tried three different methods and the version I like best is where I made small riblets instead of bending the tabs. This one turned out the best but I could not solid rivet the trim tab horn (had to use pop rivets) and would really prefer it just be done right.
I have tried the clamping methods shown by vans but my bending blocks keep moving and I feel like sometimes it is just better to see if someone can help rather than beat my head against the wall.
I was moving along pretty well with my build until I hit this wall and now I am kind of stuck and a while the skins are not expensive it is demoralizing to keep messing them up!
If you are interested you can message me off list at steve.freeman @ syntaxds.com. (spaces in email address to help prevent scrapers from snatching email addy.)
Any help is appreciated. If nothing else, does anyone have a good set of pictures for how they did this?
Thanks in advance,
Steve
PS - this is not my first time to the airplane building rodeo (currently flying N902AL I built from kit) but this is the first time I am almost ready to throw in the towel on a part. Ugh...frustrated.