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Still some work to do but happy so far.

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Had to remove more of the rudder than I wanted so build up rudder trailing edge by attaching peel ply to the outside of the rudder and build up trailing edge using flox around the edge and an initial 2 ply of bid. i'll apply an additional 2 ply after the

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bracket installed

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blue foam placed in rudder to fill void

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foam removed to make space for the rudder bracket

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Marking position for bracket on rear bulk head

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Same of port side.

Torque tube

Took some measurements and sent query to Europa. Response was I required the issue 1 TP38s

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As you can see the Issue 1 Bearings are considerably longer and will require shortening once I have the correct dimensions.

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Trial fitted the torque tube but it looks like the TP38 bearing is too short!

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Trial fit of the push rod bracket! Doesn't look good. This is going to take some thought.

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Instructions state that rod should be reamed to 0.375" but it needed to be reamed out 0.428" to fit push rod.

Rivets

Next problem. Once the push rod end was fitted and drilled according to the manual the rivets provided were too short to go through the whole structure. Awaiting a response from Europa

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Foam removed from rear bulk head ready for plywood inserts

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Rudder opened up to accept the push rod bracket. Alas no blue foam as it is the NG model. No instructions on how to proceed. Advice from Europa is to bod in some blue foam is it is not load bearing and is just a bed for the composite.

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