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Date:  8-31-2018
Number of Hours:  3.00
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Brief Description:  New LHS Skins and Assemble LHS

I decided to take a day of vacation to get a longer holiday weekend. My rudder parts arrived this afternoon and with them were a couple of new LHS elevator skins because I messed up the tab bending on the original ones last week.

This time I made sure I got the bend offsets correct and spent a lot of effort getting everything lined up as well as possible. This time I wrote the bend offsets on the parts to make sure I'd get them right. I found that 1/64 in. is the width of a Sharpie line, so the offset is very small. That's why the lower skin with the 1/32 in. offset has a thicker line. The end result was near perfection.

No problems were encounted today, unless you count a stiff neck and back. Otherwise, the left side elevator went together quickly. I'm always impressed with quality of the fit in the RV-14 kit. It's so easy to get things lined up.

Next step is to get the trim tab hinge match drilled to the elevator, but that'll be done tomorrow.
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Upper (top) and lower (bottom) LHS skins closeout tab bends.

Upper (top) and lower (bottom) LHS skins closeout tab bends.

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No dents or half moons this time.

No dents or half moons this time.

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LHS elevator partially assembled and ready for the trim tab hinge work.

LHS elevator partially assembled and ready for the trim tab hinge work.

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