DATE: 02/05/2025 – TIME: 2:03 – 5:17 ~ 3:10
Completing the process of attaching the Zenith 750 SD horizontal stabilizer skins to the horizontal stabilizer skeleton.
The goal today is to finish attaching the horizontal stabilizer skin to the horizontal stabilizer skeleton. I don’t think I mentioned this before, but so far I have been able to complete all of the assembly on my own. It is taking a little longer than I would have liked but I am making a number of edits to the IPL spreadsheet that passes as I go. Hopefully that will be of user to someone in the future.
You will notice in the snapshots that I have three tools I am trading. Generally, I use the hand riveter to push in rivets that I cannot push in by hand. If that doesn’t work reasonably easily then I use the pneumatic drill,rotated by hand, to “clean out” the hole.
When riveting, I riveted from the leading edge, centre, towards the rear spar / trailing edge and both tip ribs. Not sure if this method helps much but I was pretty happy with the end result.
You will notice in these pictures that I still had clecos in the rear spar and doublers. I wanted to leave the process of riveting the doublers to the rear spar web until I had the skin and doublers riveted in place in the hopes that it would improve alignment.
