Tonight I started making up the elevator pushrods. There are three aluminum tubes that have caps installed, with threads for rod end bearings. I final drilled the holes in all three pushrods and primed the inside of the tubes.
The plans ship with a template, which I used to trace onto some thin trace paper. I’m glad I traced it, vs just cutting it out of the page in the plans, because I discovered the printing wasn’t to scale. The first template I made didn’t quite fit around, and when I checked the scale on the plans page I realized it was printed at about 95% true size.
Once I had adjusted for the error and made a new template I marked out the holes and drilled them using my pipe clamp.
Then with the end caps in place, I final drilled all the holes and deburred them. Then i primed the insides of the tubes and left them to dry overnight.
