Thank you kindly Robert, Vincent
Great Galloping Horny Toads, Batman !!!! Are we really going to do this one over ?
Why yes Robin, there are some things you just can't let go by.
Well, I ended up doing my elevators over. First mistake was to not wax the tape. It did release but kept some balsa. Second mistake was not do do a wrap around cawl instead of a sectional on. Ended up with some dents and slight misshape on the outer perimeter.
I went ahead and trued them up. I could have made them work but like Batman told the boy wonder. Nope.
The rudder turned out fine, its a keeper.
Any way this is how I trued them up.
Got my glass out so I could CA the shapes down to the table. It's real easy to get a razor blade between the glass and what ever you got glued to it. Before gluing them down I shimmed the high spots so it would sit flat then glued it to the glass. Then set one of my forms in the shape and used it for a flat plane. Then ran a router around it to cut one side flat.
If you look at the first photo you will see the high end with a shim under it.
This is where the do over began. I did a wrap around cawl then split it for ease of clamp up.
Oh, I used wax this time.
To cut the other side, you just tack the now flat side down to the table and parallel cut the untrue side. I went a slightly different route though. I trued the other side with my 12 in drum sander.
Next up was to begin assembly. I decided to use the kit hinges on the tail surfaces. The one thing I didn't like was a short 3/8 by 3/8 by 4 inch piece of spruce that ties both elevators together. This seemed to me a little week. So I ran the 3/8 by 3/8 all the way across the two elevators. I used a piece of clear straight pine for this. I split this piece and made some hinge pockets and made the adjoining piece the same way. The inner sandwich is 1/6 aircraft ply sanded to 3/64 (hinge thickness).
The plan called for the adjoining piece on the horizontal stab to be 3/8 by 3/4 balsa with a 1/8 by 3/8 piece of spruce glued to the back of it. I used the balsa but split it and put the ply hinge spacers in it. Then glued the spruce stiffener to it.
Then began to assemble the elevator.
As long as I cut the trailing edge centered the hinge pockets should be dead on.
Kevin