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June 18, 2004
The inside HS nose ribs need a hole cut in them for the elevator trim cables. Here's a rough cut after drawing out the hole. At each end you can see where I used a drill bit to establish the end radius, and then used my dremel with a cutting bit to remove the rest of the material.
I should have taken another close-up shot. Hopefully you can see that the two holes are a lot smoother than the rough cut up above. After the dremel, I used a file to finish off the holes.
Time to get started on the cradle. The darn thing doesn't have to be perfect since it's not a jig substitute. It's just a tool for holding the HS in place whilst it's being worked on. I cleco'd the nose and inspar rib together, and used that along with an 1/8" spacer to draw out the initial shape.
After that, I measured how much room I'd need for each block, and started cutting. This shot is with the depth cut down.
The board has been cut into 4 pieces. Now to cut out the rib shape.
Am I a great artist or what? (okay, not
really)
I used the trace of the rib+spacer for the first cut, and then used the first
block as my template for the others.
