Trim Tab Bending!
Okay–so after reading about putting this part together and an aborted attempt last night, I finally got around to bending the trim tab tabs for real.
First, I made another oak break with the interlocking notch at the top. I highly recommend oak or another hard wood because you are going put a lot of pressure on this break and you’ll want to minimize the flex.
The bends on each side worked very well this time. My only complaint is that I ended up with kinks on each trailing edge. This was caused by the trailing edge of the positive break was a tad thinner than the radius of the trim tab. So when all that pressure was applied the edge of the wood break put a kink in the trailing edge of the trim tab.
Tasks Completed:
- Bent inboard and outboard tabs of the trimtab
- Pop riveted elevator skin tabs
- Finished riveting left elevator skin to skeleton