02/09/2007 - Riveting at last

Last night I went down to Mom's and Bob's to have a look at all the priming.  Wow they look great cant wait for them to be delivered next week.  In the mean time I brought back the rear spar elevator bearing, as it fit in my pocket.  I have a two seater sports car so that's all I could fit in !!

I did manage to take the elevator skins, stiffeners and trim access plate stiffener for priming at the same time.

There isn't much aluminium left in the garage at the moment !

Anyway on with the riveting, see the bearing is a lovely green, all primed up using Strontium Chromate.

Now the plans called for a AN470AD4-5; so that's exactly what I used but the shop head was severely undersized.  Funny I thought so after I had done all 6 I decided perhaps I should do a bit of reading.

30 minutes later:  oh dear it seems everyone has this problem, and also with the rear spar which means ordering larger rivets eak! Other builders used the next size rivet up AN470AD4-6.  I can only thing that the 4-5 was the correct size before the bearing brackets were pre-powder coated by Vans.  I resolved myself to reading other builders sites more often.

I then struggled with my next decision, do I carry on and 'forget about it' or drill all six out and put the larger rivets in.  I decided on the latter....but it took a while.

In the end the assembly looks like this and I am pleased and releaved.

I then worked on the left elevator skeleton and corresponding counterweight.

Tada a picture of the skeleton of the control surfaces, rudder with right and left elevator.