Sunday, June 25, 2017

Empennage, Elevator (Part 26)

The last step to completing the Elevators is to trim and install the Counterweights.  Since I'm weighting for the Proseal to cure in the Right Elevator, I decided to go ahead and prepare the counterweights.  Here are the four E-614 Counterweights.....
 
And here is what the plans tell me to do to them.....
 

I started by Final-Drilling #12 the two holes in each of the counterweights and then trimming them accourding to the instructions above.  Here they are after all the trimming is completed.  
 

The two inside counterweights also required a little more modification.  The excerpt below instructs the material to be removed in the hatched areas.
 

Here is one of the inside Counterweights after the excess material was removed. 
 

Now, all I have to do is install the Counterweights on the Elevators with the proper hardware.  One last task remaining to complete the Left Elevator is to make the Micro Molex connector.  The five pins shown below in the excerpt had to be crimped to the appropriate wires from the Trim Servo.  
 

Here are the five pins installed on the five wires from the Trim Servo.....