A little more work on the empenage

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 12:24 am

I worked a bit more on the HS skeleton. I found out I don't know much about alodining.

I'm definately going to need to work on my technique a bit. Everyone likes pictures so....

Fore end:

Aft end:

You can read more about it here.

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:25 am

That looks familiar!!!

CJ

Post by **Spike** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:56 am

Man, this place is starting to hop!!!

bmurrish · Post by **bmurrish** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 8:21 am

Looking good Scott. Are the lines on the map routes that you have flown your -4?

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 5:34 pm

Actually, yes. The red line is the route I took to OSH in 2005, the blue line is where I was showing the kids what route the airline was going to take on our Tennessee vacation.

dons · Post by **dons** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 8:33 pm

That looks great Scott, you're really moving, I started a month and a half ago and aren't that far along. Keep up the good work. Your alodining looks a darker than mine. but other than that I can't really say much as I don't know what I'm doing, I just did the spars last night.

JohnR · Post by **JohnR** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:59 pm

Scott, looks like good progress! I was working on those parts just one year ago.

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:18 pm

Here's a question for y'all empenage graduates. One of the steps says to enlarge the HS-708 to HS-603PP holes to #19. That sound right? That's seems like an awful big hole to me.

prestwich · Post by **prestwich** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:25 am

Scott, yer Big Daddy blind rivets are gonna go in there. The callout is correct.

Womack2005 · Post by **Womack2005** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:58 am

Looking very good Scott

Wicked Stick · Post by **Wicked Stick** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:33 am

The deep color of the alodine/etch looks to me like it's being left on too long.
I would think 1/2 that tint/color would be long enough for adequate protection.

Also, don't let it (alodine) dry on the parts... It should always stay wet and then rinse with water thoroughly after it's started to tint up.