Fabricated R-716 and R-717

Tonight I ticked just two items. The quick one was enlarging a hole in the R-704 rib (the rib in the bottom of the rudder) for the bottom rudder bearing, using a unibit.

Then I went on to "Fabricate the R-717 spacer and both R-716 rudder bottom attach strips". The R-716 will hold the fiberglass tip at the bottom of the rudder, and the R-717 spacer is a shim between the rudder horn and the spar, making up for the thickness of the front flange of the R-704 rib. Those three parts need to be fabricated from .032" 2024-T3 alclad -- good that I hadn't touched the "trim bundle" yet, I thought those pieces were just for practicing!

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Here are the finished parts. As you can see I still need to drill them, but as they need to be match-drilled to other parts I don't do this tonight. On the left you can also see the R-704 rib with the hole for the rod bearing:

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