Torque Tube-to-bellcrank pushrods

After a week away, I came back to the garage tonight. I drilled the first set of aileron pushrods, and deburred the ends. None of the rod ends needed sanding, they all fit easily into the ends of the tubes.

To my surprise, I found that the template Vans supplied for drilling the holes was not to scale. I made my own out of some graph paper. I also used an off it to practice drilling using my pipe clamp on the drill press. It all worked ok, so I moved onto the real parts.

My own template
Practicing with the clamp and drill press
Finished drilling and deburring the tubes. Next step will be match drilling into the threaded rod ends, then priming inside and outside of the whole assembly

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