Ken Patton
Member
Should I attach the rudder to the vertical stabilizer now or should I wait until it’s attached to the fuselage? I’m just finishing my empennage kit and I’ve already ordered the fuselage.
A little trick I discovered - the rudder is really hard to align by yourself (if, like me, you do the vast majority of your work on your own) with the tiniest of tolerances that all these parts have.
Instead of trying to align everything with real AN3 bolts from the start, get some cheap narrow screws. I used 1 inch long 6-32 screws for electrical outlets. They take far less effort to line up perfectly with the eyelets and holes. So, you drop those in to test the fit and can swap them one by one for the real screws once you want to go with the real thing.
Should I attach the rudder to the vertical stabilizer now or should I wait until it’s attached to the fuselage? I’m just finishing my empennage kit and I’ve already ordered the fuselage.