There are two questions that I now need to bring to Van’s on Monday when I get a chance. First off, as you’ll see from the image below, I drilled the wrong hole for the bolt that will hold the fairings on to the airplane between the wings themselves and Read more…
I spent just a small amount of time making sure that the holes for the skins and the ribs were already final sized. I picked a few random holes and they all were exactly the size they need to be. I spent alot of my time over the past few Read more…
I decided to at least get a peak at how well the skins fit today by clecoing them on. It took a bit of time but I got it on successfully without any major issues.
Not much to state except that I got all of the riveting done for the rear spar. I am done with offset rivet attachments though. You lose power in the offset. I ended up filing down the offset I had so it would fit in the tight area around the Read more…
I got the countersinking and the dimpling completed and then primed all of the parts this morning. The ribs that had the flap brackets on them were a bit of a pain. I had my close quarter dimpler and I had to go buy some 4D 1.5″ nails to finish Read more…
I had a visit with my local EAA chapter tech today to have him double check how things are going. He didn’t see any issues with the current build progress so that’s always a good sign. The spar doublers showed up today so I got those drilled and deburred. The Read more…
Since I’m waiting on parts to finish the rear spar I decided to check the skins and how they fit. I got them down from storage and removed the lamination from it. I then clecoed on the wing walk doubler skins and that’s when I noticed I had put the Read more…
I did a lot of work over the past two days which I’m going to put into two separate posts since they are over different sections, but I’ll mention some of it here as it will be necessary to see why I did some of the other work I mention. Read more…
I got all of the deburring done for all of the small parts as well as all of the drilling done on the outboard reinforcement plates. I also drilled the four additional holes on the inboard reinforcement plate into the ribs that are non-standard. I deburred all of the parts Read more…
I decided to get another bit of work last night which I should have called it quits because I was mentally done for the night. I ended up cutting the W-1007D reinforcement plates too short so I had to reorder new ones of those. After that mistake I went ahead Read more…