RV-9A: Ailerons - 5/1/2007
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 Started work on the aileron bracket assemblies
I found all the parts and clecoed each bracket together. I couldn’t find the angle piece AA6-125x1x1 which makes the aileron stops. I ordered some 1 inch and 7/8 inch Delrin Rods from Aircraft Spruce to use instead of the aileron stops. You can see a write-up on the Delrin Rod Aileron Stops HERE. I’m sure that the 7/8 inch rods will work, but I ordered a 1 inch also just to cover my butt.
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 Started assembling the outboard brackets
After countersinking the holes directly behind the bearing and priming the parts, I clecoed everything together.
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 Riveted the outboard brackets together
I used my small no-hole yoke on my pneumatic squeezer to rivet everything together. I put the manufactured head of the rivet on the opposite side of the angle piece when riveting the angle on. This made positioning the rivet squeezer much easier.
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 Here’s a shot of the flip side
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 Started riveting the inboard aileron brackets together
Started riveting the inboard aileron brackets together
As you can see here, I've already finished one (practice piece, don't cha' know). I started by clecoing one of the main longer pieces (W-914) with the 2 countersink holes to the long angle piece. On the previous bracket, I put the hole bracket assembly together at one time and found it really hard (damn near impossible) to get these 2 rivets in.
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 Riveted on the W-913 long angle piece
This takes care of the hard-to-get-to countersunk rivets.
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 Clecoed on the rest of the parts
You can see here how hard it would be to get to the previously mentioned rivets.
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 Riveted the aft rivets first
This are the flat rivet heads for the countersunk holes.
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 Getting ready to rivet the last 3 rivets
The drawing called out for 3 AN470D4-11 rivets. I looked in all the bins and couldn’t find those rivets anywhere. So I decided to use some AN470D4-12 rivets. I grabbed my needle nose pliers and sanded off a little of the ends of each rivet on the bench sander to get the AN470D4-11 to size I needed.
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 All done!
These brackets turned out really nice.
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