Flaps
Started - 2.3.2000 - Finished 2.7.2000
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Assembling the flap is very easy... Here is the flap ribs drilled and clecoed to the bottom skin... |
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I used some small alum. pieces to hold the ribs in while I drilled them to the spar... |
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Here is the top skin clecoed to the ribs and bottom skin... |
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Here is the flap clecoed together, with the hinge clecoed in place, installed in the V-jig I made... |
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Another view of the flap in the V-jig... |
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Here are the FL-406B plates ready to be drilled. You have to make these from flat stock... |
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This is the FL-406B & FL-406C riveted together and ready for assembly to the flap. Hey... Nobody told me I was going to have to MAKE MY OWN PARTS!!! he, he |
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Bottom skin in the jig held in with the blocks left over from cutting the v-jigs... This made it very easy to rivet the ribs to the bottom skins... |
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In the jig after priming and riveting the ribs to the bottom skin |
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I used the side of my no-hole yoke as a bucking bar to buck the rivets holding the top and bottom skins together. |
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Here is my custom bucking bar. I got the idea from Jerry Calvert, RV-6A builder... |
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I put the Magic riveters tape (got it at Wal-Mart), on the head of my flush riveter, works great... |
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I finally broke down and bought a $2 apron to hold clecos, best investment I have made so far... |
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Here I am cutting another custom bucking bar from one of my back rivet plates. |
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I made it 1"x6"x3.8", and used to to buck a couple of the rivets on the root end of the flap... |