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Error repaired
Learned today that I should not trust anything, esp. myself. Had to remove the nose skin on the rudder as I had incorrectly tucked it under the rear skin when it should have been installed on top. I have a new skill, rivet removing! Getting real good at it.
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Comment by Bradford Drown on June 28, 2019 at 2:48pm
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Hey Mickey,
I removed the rivets that held the skin to the spar and the rivets that attached to the nose rib, slid the nose skin off and deburred. It is a lot easier to mount the nose skin where it belongs. Took me 90 minutes.
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Comment by Mickey R. Mathieson on June 28, 2019 at 11:43am
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Hi Bradford
After looking at your rudder and post I realize I made the same mistake! I tucked the nose skin under the rear skin.
was this differicult to fix?
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Yes, until the rudder was rattle free! :-)
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Comment by Jacques Hoffler on June 27, 2019 at 6:41pm
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Must have been fun. It looks good now! Did you remove back of the rivets that fell inside the vertical tail when you drilled the rivets out?
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