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Back in the Saddle Again

asw20c

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It's been a while since I've posted anything; in fact it's even been a while since I've visited this site. Last year I ran into two successive problems (pitot system and bottom skins) with my wings that just about torpedoed the whole project. I eventually figured out my pitot system and after many months got the bottom skins on but I lost the better part of a year due to these two obstacles. I pretty much walked away from the project in disgust because I had become disillusioned with obstacles that had seemed almost insurmountable. Both of them required backtracking before moving forward again, and with a project as labor intensive as this I absolutely loathe rework or having to backtrack.

Fast forward to June of this year and I'm happy to report that the flaps are well underway and that I'm having fun in the shop again after far too long. In fact I'm taking great pride in a small side project I just completed that makes final drilling and countersinking the flap and aileron trailing edge extrusions absolutely perfect. I had been scratching my head on how I could consistently drill 84 degrees to the skin surface (90 degrees to the imaginary line that bisects the included angle of the trailing edge extrusion). My solution was to build a simple jig that held the extrusion at either a 6 degree (for final drilling) or 12 degree angle (for countersinking) and then used my mill for the operations. It worked beautifully. I'll see if I can post a few pictures.
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