I spent a fair amount of time today working on the rudder trailing edge. It will use a special "double flush" rivet technique and there is a strip between the skins that has to be countersunk. This seems to give a lot of builders trouble so I'm taking extra time with it.
There's a lot of hole drilling. To keep everything straight I bought a piece of aluminum angle and match drilled it to the trailing edge wedge. Before the riveting is done I will bond the railing edge with epoxy (per the plans) with the rudder attached (with clecos) to the angle then carefully rivet so as not to introduce a bend in the thin trailing edge.
Match drilling the aluminum angle straight edge:
Fitting the lead rudder counterweight:
Rudder parts dimpled and ready for priming!
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