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12/31/04

More work on HS411PP Assembly - I did like the plans said and removed the HS411 bracket from the rear spar assembly, deburred the parts, primed, and then riveted them together. When riveting them together I made the mistake of not clecoing the HS411 bracket down to something when squeezing the rivets. This made one of the brackets slip slightly higher on one side than the other, so I drilled out the rivets and did it over again. Drilling the heads was easy, getting them out was not so easy.

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12/31/04

More work on HS411PP Assembly - This is a picture after the rivets were removed. I clecoed the HS411 back down to the spar reinforcement bars, and set as many rivets as I could while it was clecoed down to the spar reinforcment bars. It came out good the second time around. As you can see I primed only one of the HS411 brackets due to the drill removing some of the factory applied coating when I drilled the brackets. I used NAPA self etching primer in a can. I also primed VA146. I am waiting to enlarge the HS411 attachement holes to HS609PP until I hear back from Van's on whether or not I need to replace the gouged HS609PP.

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