Did another 4 hours work on the horizontal tail forward spar fitting angle. The angle is now formed filed and deburred, which is necessary to prevent cracks when bending. I drilled most pilot holes on the angle except from the ones which are close to the bend line and I also drilled the 13/16´┐¢ holes at the end of the cut outs but did not do the cuts yet. (I got this strategy from Eric Witherspoon´┐¢s site, it seemed logical) I practiced the 22 degree bend with a ´┐¢´┐¢ radius on some scrap metal as well. Some people choose to make a special bending tool for this job, others seem equally successful using a much simpler method, I chose something in between. The method I chose is squeezing the part between a piece of 1´┐¢ steel pipe, and wooden V-block in my bench vice. This method worked very well on the scrap pieces, let´┐¢s hope it works just as well on the real piece.
