25/11/2007 - Oh its gluing the rudder time...not looking forward to this.

But before Bob and I commenced with the gluing I drilled the holes out to 7/64" where I could not get a bucking bar or the longeron yolk in to squeeze.  Then installed the pop rivets that the plans say you can use as an alternative.  Had to do this in a couple of places in the rudder basically the last rivet by the horn as shown in the picture and the last rivet towards the trailing edge as it gets very narrow there.

Two major decisions were made for the 'gluing'; we would mix the sealer separately not in the tube it came in as we would not need that much and it would mean application to the wedge to be a lot easier.  The second decision was to trap the rudder between two angles of aluminium as the pictures show.  Later on the result shows a dead straight rudder and bang in the middle...pleased with the result.  What ever method you use here its worth spending a bit of money on some material that will do the job...nuff said.  Now its just has to be left to dry !!

Vertical Stabiliser

With Bob available for help it was time to patch up some of the primer where I had pulled it off with tape when riveting the fin.  I borrowed next doors air brush kit he uses for model making and yesterday I bought some new parts for it to go connect to the compressor.  We then sprayed the inside of the forward spar in the fin.  It was then a virtually simple job of riveting on the aft spar using the pneumatic squeezer.