Glue, clamps and toolmaking

Today I glued together one off the rudder skins with the trailing edge wedge. Then I started making the tilted die that I will try to make the final trailing edge riveting squeeze with.

   

Cleaning

Mixing glue

Placing glue

Clamping

Cleaning of excess

checking

tool-making

Preparing for the rudder trailing edge

Today I just drilled an L-shaped length of aluminium to be used for stabilizing the trailing edge. I also got the glue I ordered today.

Tomorrow I will buy some more clamps and then it will be time to glue the trailing edge wedge to one side of the skin in preparation for the dreaded riveting of the rudders trailing edge.

Forgot to reposition the camera for the trial fit

A short session, blind riveting

Had to work this evening so only a short session were I put in some blind rivets to fixate the small attachment plates.

More back riveting of stiffeners

Riveted the rest of the stiffeners, drilled out some from the last session and re-did them.
A short movie:
http://youtu.be/MCXrj5iYP2o

Placing rivets

Keeping the rivets in place

Turned over, steel plate under, stiffener in place

Back riveting

Marking bad rivets

Drilling out

Prying the head away

Taking the back out, worked better than punching them out

re-riveting

setting up for the next step

Proper priming, dimpling, countersinking and finally some back-riveting

Started with dimpling the rudder skins. Went well and did not take that much time, it was well worth the time to fix a good surface with the correct height for the skins to rest at. I plan to make some permanent tabletops to make this an easy task for the future. This might be something to work on while being forced to wait which takes me to the next step, priming that ends with waiting for parts to dry up.

The priming went fantastic and the cleaning up after was much easier than expected! Decided to better the priming on some of the smaller parts.

Next step was some more dimpling, the holes that could not be done with the C-frame. After a break thinking, I then grinded a piece of wood with a slight angle to be able to machine countersink as instructed. The actual work took less time than the preparation. Result looks great.

Ended up with attaching two ribs to a skin, I do not have a back riveting device, used the ordinary dies. An OK result but I want better tools, I plan to drill out at least four of today's around 20 rivets.