Here we have all the peices cut out for the rudders and trim wing and we're test fitting them.
Next I had to turn down the end of each of the wooden pieces going through the rudders to 3/4" DIA Since our lathe isn't long enough to do the entire piece at once we had to cut them in half.
Next I took the parting tool and at the begining of the rounded part I took it down to 3/4" Dia so I wouldn't take too much off.
Then I took our small gouge and roughed it out.
Finally I tured the speed up and used our skew chisel to take it down to 3/4" dia and to make it nice and flat and even.
Here are the rudders and trim wing with both peices of foam glued to the wood.
Here is one of the rudders all glued up and ready to be rough cut on the table saw with the dado blade.
Here is our template we used to draw the shape of the rudder so we knew how much we could cut off.
Here is one of the rudders after we finished rought cutting it with the dado blade on one side.
Next we put a template on each side of the rudder and ran a long sander back and forth untill we got down to the template. It only took about 20 minutes to get one side of a rudder sanded and ready to fiberglass.
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Here is the bottom rudder mount with the bushings in it so the rudders can turn smoothly
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Here is a close up of one of the bushings, I made them out of PVC pipe with a 3/4" inside dia. I turned them down on our lathe and left a collar on them so they couldn't come out and would be easyly replaceable.
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Here is one of the trim wing supports, we made them so we can take off the two aluminum plates and take off the trim wing and rudders.
