Aileron pushtubes
Sun, Apr 19th 2009
I started today with cutting my W-818 and W-716 tubes to length. Had I been paying close attention, I would have noticed a tiny dent in one end of the AT6-035x1.25 tubing used to make the W-716's, and cut it off instead of some perfectly straight tubing! This mistake required me to get a replacement tube from Van's and crushed my goal of finishing all four tubes today. I deburred the ends of the tubes and primed the insides. While the primer was drying, I went to the hardware store and picked up some aluminum angle to fabricate a drill guide with to assist me in drilling straight through the round tubes. After the guide was built, I drilled the AN490-HT8P threaded rod ends to the W-818's, and the VA-111's to the W-716. I backriveted the W-818's, and that seemed to work well. The W-716 ends used blind rivets.