Because the heat and humidity was stifling, only made a couple one hour visits to the shop. But was able to cut the hinge brackets apart along with a few other parts that needed separating and deburred the lot of them.
Today it was much cooler, mid 80’s so ... could have used the Sanchem but figured since I started prepping stabilator parts may as well try to finish them up … or at least finish up the ones that make up the spar box.
After the hinge brackets were separated and buffed smooth on the Scotch-brite wheel the plans call for finial drilling the holes in the four brackets to #12.
Because quite a few pieces that make up the spar box have already been prepped, decided to attack the spar box components and stop there … figure that is a perfect place to stop for priming. All the spar box components require machine countersinking at various locations. There are two locations on each of the two HS-1211 pieces (which are the upper and lower spar box components) where you are to countersink for 3/32” rivets … yet between them, Van’s places a 1/8” countersunk rivet for no apparent reason. I feel this was done so a builder does not need a 3”yoke for the squeezer. After looking at photos from other builder sites and verifying that my squeezer fits, plans are to squeeze a solid flush 1/8” rivet in the place of the flush “pop” rivets. Therefore at those four locations, I will be deviating from the plans and the countersinking will be done with a #30 100 degree countersink bit so a solid flush rivet can be used in the place of the pop rivet.
