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lsapilot(at)HOTMAIL.COM
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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:39 pm Post subject: I messed up skinning my rudder

Well, it seems that I was not as caerful as I thought when skinning my 

rudder.   There is a twist... or it is flat on one side.   I had the 3/4 in 

block under the trailing edge, but it didn't turn out correctly.  One side 

is flat, and the trailing edge is up 1 1/2 in on the flip side.



Is this critical?  What would be the issue with using the rudder as is, or 

do I need to order a new rudder?



Thanks

Jon



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naumuk(at)alltel.net
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:01 am Post subject: I messed up skinning my rudder

Jon-

    You bet it's critical. If you let yourself slide now, you'll be in the 

same boat as I was 4 months into my project- it took me a year and a half to 

rebuild myself out of it.That was 3 years ago!

    Any building that requires shims- SCREW THE SHIMS INTO YOUR TABLE AND 

CLAMP THE ASSEMBLY. Movement is death.

    Look on the bright side- you should be able to salvage most of the parts 

and only have to make a few ribs. The HD DVD walks you through the entire 

scratchbuild process. The refreshing thing for an instructional video is, 

Jon and Mark screw up a couple of times themselves, but show you how to make 

lemonades out of lemons.



Bill Naumuk

HDS Fuselage

Townville, Pa

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agustafson(at)chartermi.n
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:07 am Post subject: I messed up skinning my rudder

Jon



Been there done that.  I have 2 rudders, one for show and tell and one good 

one on my 601. You might have 2 also! The second one goes so much better.



Aaron G   do not archive

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		  > There is a twist... or it is flat on one side.   I had the 3/4 in

 block under the trailing edge, but it didn't turn out correctly.  One side 

 is flat, and the trailing edge is up 1 1/2 in on the flip side.

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gboothe(at)calply.com
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:25 am Post subject: I messed up skinning my rudder

Why not drill out the rivets, re-shim the pieces and switch to 

A5's, if necessary? In fact, I have heard that merely re-shimming and

re-riveting often does the job. It's worth a try....



Gary Boothe 

Cool, CA 

601 HDSTD, WW Conversion 90% done, 

Tail done, wings done, working on c-section



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jlatimer1(at)cox.net
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:28 am Post subject: I messed up skinning my rudder

I had the same problem at the rudder workshop and Roger at ZAC did exactly

what Gary suggests except we were able to use A4 rivets.  The rudder came

out fine.

Jerry Latimer

601 HDS 912



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naumuk(at)alltel.net
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:50 am Post subject: I messed up skinning my rudder

Did I miss something, or was the crease edge on the wrong side? 

No big deal- just tell everyone you're building a Mooney.

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Bill Naumuk

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lsapilot(at)HOTMAIL.COM
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:28 pm Post subject: I messed up skinning my rudder

Thanks to everyone for the advice.



Drilling out the rivets on the flat side and using a better shim system did 

the job.  I purchased 2 metal fence posts from Home Depot.  They are like 3 

inch square by 6 feet long.



I taped the rudder to the jig this time, and after enlarging the holes to 

A5, everything turned out great!  I had to go to A5 because the holes were 

about 1/2 the diameter off after re-shimming.



If you don't know to look, I don't think you will even know there are 2 

different sized rivets.



Thanks again!



Jon Burns



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