{"id":7208,"date":"2018-04-05T10:43:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T13:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/?p=7208"},"modified":"2018-04-05T10:51:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T13:51:12","slug":"april-05-10-minute-fix-does-your-rudder-look-like-a-prop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/?p=7208","title":{"rendered":"April 05 the 10 Minute Fix, does your Rudder look like a Prop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Often times Trailing edges are not straight.<\/p>\n

Good or bad I don’t like the looks of a warped trailing edge, sometimes it\u00a0 crops up in the build<\/p>\n

Other times, it’s just wood moving and giving these propeller like trailing edges.<\/p>\n

I have another new rudder here with a bowed trailing edge.<\/p>\n

Rather then sand it to shape and cover it and pray that the covering tension removes the bow ,I am gonna try something different<\/p>\n

A Splint.<\/p>\n

I’ll add a slot into the trailing edge and straighten out the wood then glue the splint.<\/p>\n

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watch for wood grain in both the splint and the T E and try and put together so one works against the other , that will help keep things straight<\/p>\n

This should clean up nicely afterwards, and with a clean cut, no additional weight \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Here I try to show the bow, perhaps 1\/16 inch, but quite noticeable to my eyes<\/p><\/div>\n

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again the bow,<\/p><\/div>\n

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11.7 Grams before surgery<\/p><\/div>\n

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I picked the spot, used a straight edge and eyeballed a couple edges and added two slits with a sharp single edge blade, these cuts are about 1\/16 apart, tight fit is good<\/p><\/div>\n

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almost thru, I’ll freehand the cuts thru, and clean up the ends with a saw<\/p><\/div>\n

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Being careful where I break thru, not separating the opposite side with a big hole, I cleaned up both ends at a bit of an angle being careful not to widen the slot<\/p><\/div>\n

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OK, cut the strong back to length with a taper, ready for a trial fit<\/p><\/div>\n

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Great fit, tight squeeze<\/p><\/div>\n

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opposite side, this will clean up later<\/p><\/div>\n

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This rudder will get covered with opaque white so the fix won’t be seen A clean job here won’t even stand out if transparent covering is used<\/p>\n

Next time you have a bowed rudder TE, pull the covering and give this a try, while your at it improve the hinging and check for broken joints especially at the bottom.<\/p>\n

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 1,346 total views,  1 views today Often times Trailing edges are not straight. Good or bad I don’t like the looks of a warped trailing edge, sometimes it\u00a0 crops up in the build Other times, it’s just wood moving and giving these propeller like trailing edges. I have another new rudder here with a bowed trailing edge. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7212,"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208\/revisions\/7212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}