What's this? It's the R-710 rudder brace I trimmed and installed on Monday. Notice the unacceptably small edge distance on the brace-to-skin rivet holes. I did some web searching and found that it's common to have this problem if you follow the plans and trim along the prepunched guide holes. Would have been nice to have this pointed out in the instructions – "Trim the R-710 rudder brace, but not as shown on the plans!" – but I guess since it's only a nine dollar part it's not the worst thing ever to replace it. Too bad it won't arrive till next week sometime… Van's has good prices and service but sometime it seems like it takes an eternity to receive an order.
