I had to bust out my non-existent woodworking skills tonight. They were needed to build the clamp/jogs for the trim tabs. The trim tab on the RV-10 are just a piece of folded sheet aluminum with 3 foam wedges for ribs. Since you can’t rivet to foam, you glue these wedges in. In order to hold everything in place as the glue sets, you need nice tight jigs, which is what Colleen and I built tonight!
We’ll also use the wedges that were cut out of the jigs as forming blocks when it comes time to bend the edges of the trim tabs… but more on that later.
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And a very brief video as well:
Note the calculator on the workbench? I got a geometry lesson, fraction lesson, and we got to pull out the ‘ol cross multiplication 🙂
Woo hoo for teamwork!
Math is always your friend. 🙂