I had a decent Friday. I cleaned up the garage a bit. I have
a storage locker now so I can put the Porsche away for the winter along with
everything else that's in the way and make a permanent home to work in the
garage. Now only to deal with the coming cold!!!
I started off buffing the ribs to ensure that I don't
scratch up the skins. I then cleco'd the HS section together (left side)
Took a
skin out and cleco'd it on. Something was just not right. Everything lined up
well enough, except that the HS-707 rib sat off the skin about 1/8" on one
side. I just couldn't get it to lay down right. I removed the cleco's and tried
again. Little better....but not right. So I switched to the right side HS
assembly. Same skin....everything cleco'd up really nice. (Muhhhaaahahahah)
Well....1 side is good. Let's hope the other side works out later.
I should note that I
removed the blue vinyl from the inside of the skin before I started cleco'ing.
I read on the forums somewhere that leaving the film on can sometime cause
havoc in lining some things up. I can see how it can play a part, and after the
issues I had with the vertical stabilizer, I removed the film.Once I had the skin cleco'd on I started in on the
HS-00005/00006 ribs. I went very slow....very methodical with lining things up.
It's really tough to get the HS-00006 rib to sit nice and tight into the nose
of the skin. But I found that using an allan key in the grooves of the rib, I
could slowly work at pulling the rib into the nose as well as getting the rib
straight. after messing around, I ended up drilling the #40 holes as shown in
section D-D of the HS plans. Thank God that I didn't screw that up!!! nor did I
have ANY issues with edge distances.
I also ended up
getting HS-00005/00006, HS-702, HS-710 & HS-714 nice and tight!. It took a
long time to work at it, but I can say
that everything turned out very well.
