Ailerons ready for primer
All aileron parts are complete and ready for primer. After drilling the stainless steel pipe that is the forward counter-balance on each aileron, it occurred to me that I needed to figure out a way to at least knock off the burr on the inside of the pipe. What I came up with was to take a piece of threaded water pipe that would fit into the stainless pipe and use the threads on the end of the water pipe to knock off the burr on the inside of the counter-balance pipe. This worked like a charm!
Next up was to machine countersink the trailing edge wedges. I’ve done this three times on the empennage and each time was a near traumatic experience. I decided that this time was going to be different since I have to do these two and then two more long ones for the flaps. So I built a little jig for use in the drill press. The trick is to get the angle right and everything fully supported. It worked great and was well worth the time spent messing with the jig. After completing some other aileron skin dimpling chores I got back to work on the flaps.
I had previously completed fabrication of most of the flap skeleton parts and just picked back up in assembly where I left off.
