| Yesterday, I set out to add some anti chaffe tape to the top of the VS,as when the rudder was fully deflected. there was some |
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| rubbing in this area. I removed the rudder, and found that there was only 1/4" to allow for tape !?!?! without running into the |
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| spar and rivet heads. I had discarded the idea of using hand seamers to 'open' the area because of fear of cracking the paint. |
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| But I covered the jaws of the seamers with duct tape, and then CAREFULLY worked the area in question, to my happy surprise I |
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| found that I was easily able to open up the area enough to eliminate the rubbing and to equal the same gap as the remainder of |
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| the VS/Rudder. While I had the tail light off. I took advantage of Jerry and Mickey's buffer, and bufferd the tail/strobe light |
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| aluminum housing. Looks Nice ! When the plane was painted they use a buffing compound to do the color sanding of the clear |
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| coat. The residue that it leaves is similar to talc powder. (There are some traces of it around the rivets heads.) I was concerned |
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| that this had found it's way into the static system, So. I crawled under the panel and disconnected the static line. I inspected each |
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| static port and opened up any visible powder using a pin. Then I applied some compressed air to the disconnected static line to |
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| blow any residue out of the system. Reconnected the line. Today I helped another RV-10 builder fit his doors. He's been fighting |
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| this for over a month. We got them 'rough' fitted today, he's got some epoxy/flox work to do to repair some missteps, and then |
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