Horisontal Stabilizer Mistake Repair

RV14 Build August 2

Horizontal Stabilizer

Just as a recap. When I first assembled the HS the primer I used wasn't mixed correctly and I was concerned it wasn't going to cure and cause issues down the line. So I drilled everything apart and stripped the primer off and re-primed. Since I had assembled everything once I did it again mostly from memory and this is where I got myself into trouble. The front and rear spars have an Up and Down orientation and depending on how you look at it I flipped 1 of them when installing them. I thought I would be able to modify the rear spar to work, but the rivet holes to mount to the brackets are on an angle and not straight 90 degrees to the fuselage so the orientation of the rear became the driver. This meant I needed to drill out the rear spar or located and drill new mounting holes in the front spar.

I decided to drill the front spar. First I ordered the front spar doubler and match drilled the mounting holes into it. The red arrows show the holes that need to be drilled.

After I match drilled the double i bolted it on using the Vertical stab mounting bolt holes for orientation and then used a drill bit guide block to drill straight.

Here goes nothing!

Repeating the process on the other side.

I think I managed to pull this one off! I send pictures to Vans and am still waiting on there reply as to if this is ok! If not I will be building a new Horizontal Stab.....yikes! If they say its all good then this is officially done!

Horizontal Stabilizer Hours 3.0