Sat 14 February 2004 |
| Today we started on the Vertical Stabiliser assembly. | 
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| We realised that the lower corner holes for the bottom bracket hadn't been drilled so that had to first be fixed then resprayed. | 
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| Dad also sorted a little bit of "red-oxide" primer for the steel drilled parts. | 
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| I back riveted the lower flush rivets and then squeezed then remaining locations. | 
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| The finished rear spar for the VS. | 
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| Next up is the front spar, ribs and webs. | 
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| The upper two cross members can be squeezed but the lower web was too tight, therefore the bucking bar and rivet gun were the only option. | 
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| We then inserted the front spar into the skin and bucked and riveted the front row of rivets. We found laying the spar down and rivet downwards worked quite well. The small AD3 rivets really don't take very much duration. A shortened day as we had visitors for the evening. | 
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