September 9, 2004

Tonight I starting doig the rudder stops. I had one already made, which was attached to the fuse with clecos, and still had the other to do. That was about 18 months ago! We had some stops that were made to the plans, but unfortunately, they turned out to be too short so the travels were to far. Don’t want the rudder clouting the elevators do we?!

Anyway, I decided in my infinitely wisdom to make something out of them. Here’s a before and after shot…

I think I got a little carried away! I streamlined it a little and polished it up. I figure it might look good polished up even on a painted plane. Kind of like door hardware I guess. Here’s another shot…

It took me almost an hour and a half to come up with this! I must be going mad!

The epoxy cured perfectly araound the nylock nuts for the tail strobe too. Without me there wobbling it around, it turned out pretty rigid. I got the strobe going too! Sweet!