Rudder Fun!

[cjensen]

while the site was down the last week, i finished up my rudder!

here's some pics-

the trailing edge setting up.



my nice and straight trailing edge after being riveted.



the leading edge being rolled.



here's the leading edge finished. thanks to you guys for recommending the cleveland tools edge roller! it works great!!



...and the finished product!



on to the elevators!

[cjensen]

ok, spike...what's up with the picture thingy??

[jim_geo]

The slash goes in the last tag of the address. It's an instruction to end. I finished my rudder this afternoon also.

[Spike]

Fixed it for ya Chad. Very nice work!!

[cjensen]

well that's weird. i was just using the image button before and after the image location. i didn't put a slash anywhere. i did notice that there was a slash in the first image "button" when it didn't post right, but what do i know about this stuff.

anyway, thanks for the fix!

glad to see that you and i are still running parallel in the build jim!

[captain_john]

Wicked cool!

I like the hunk o' angle that you cleco the trailing edge to in order to keep it true!

Good idea!

I gotta make one of those yet!

...and glad to hear you like the edge roller!

CJ

[cjensen]

thanks CJ, but i can't take full credit for the idea. i saw it being used in a similar manner on brad oliver's site. the thing i did different is that i attached the angle to the table. i don't think he did it that way, but i can't tell for sure from the pics.

in the second pic, the bigger hunk o angle you see is a peice of steel angle that i clamped to the table edge, and used it as a backrivet plate. worked pretty good, but i needed a better way to secure it from scootin' away from the table. just took some time to reajust it every few hits.

[Spike]

And he got it from the Vans manual for the 9 *snicker*

[jim_geo]

That looks really nice. I had a lot of trouble getting just an acceptable bend on the leading edge looks like it went very well for you. One of the things I did a little differently that probably makes absolutly no differance at all was to use an aluminum angle on both sides of the rudder. Felt it would give me a slightly better glue seam. Looks like we're both off and running on the elevators.

[cjensen]

And he got it from the Vans manual for the 9 *snicker*

yeah, it's there in the -7 manual too, but i did buy the angle before i read it in the manual!