This occurred to me yesterday-----
Due to the hinge design (working on ruder now-) they have to come through fabric. I watched Colby's video where he covers with oratex.
He made a thin aluminum back up plate to glue the fabric to that looks like a 3 sided frame. That looks fine for what it does. But my thought was that
these opening leave the space on the inside of the rudder open to rainwater. Is everybody just leaving those holes open ?
Seems like it could be possible to take some really thin steel sheet and box that in and weld or braze or tiny metal screw it in place and wrap the covering there. That would only leave the post exposed where the hinge is.
Is anyone going to that trouble ?
Tim
Due to the hinge design (working on ruder now-) they have to come through fabric. I watched Colby's video where he covers with oratex.
He made a thin aluminum back up plate to glue the fabric to that looks like a 3 sided frame. That looks fine for what it does. But my thought was that
these opening leave the space on the inside of the rudder open to rainwater. Is everybody just leaving those holes open ?
Seems like it could be possible to take some really thin steel sheet and box that in and weld or braze or tiny metal screw it in place and wrap the covering there. That would only leave the post exposed where the hinge is.
Is anyone going to that trouble ?
Tim
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