30APR2022
Today I worked on the the elevator trim hinge. I started out drilling holes for the safety wire and tried to get that to work. I've never worked with safety wire before and was having some trouble. I got one side twisted well and the wire stayed in place, but the other side I couldn't seem to get to stay in place, it kept sliding and getting caught in the hinge and binding. So I decided not to safety wire and just peened the ends of the hinge. (Well, Tom peened them for me with some pliers 😀 )
Then I moved on the the horizontal stabilizer tips. I got those all drilled and started sanding them down with a dremel (didn't get that part in the video). I put the horizontal stabilizer and elevator together to test fit the tips. The hinge pin was really hard to get in - I may need to investigate why that was. The tips are close, they just need a little bit more sanding to provide more clearance for the elevator.
Both ends of the trim hinge peened
Build Time: 5 hours, 15 minutes