Am expecting a shipment from Van's today that will contain the backordered VS-1210 hinge bracket that will allow me to start on the vertical stabilizer. Until it arrives, I have started on Section 7, Rudder. Today, I constructed the R-1204 spar caps and the R-1205 hinge brackets. The spar caps were match drilled to the spar and the WD-1205 Rudder Horn was final drilled to the spar. The spar caps, hinge brackets and rudder horn were temporarily clecoed to the spar.
Late in the day the R-1210 hinge bracket arrived and thus was able to start Section 6.0, Vertical Stabilizer. Prepped the vertical stabilizer hinge brackets, inserted the COM-3-5 bearing and riveted the 3 parts of each hinge assembly together. I did not have a problem with the tip of the hinge bracket pulling apart or separating as mentioned on the VAF forums.
Time - 3 hours
