Wings Page 2
Started - 2.13.2000 - Finished - 9.24.2000
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Bottom main skins going on... |
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Top of leading edge skin drilled... |
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Bottom of leading edge. After I drilled the top, I pulled the bottom down flush with the bottom main skin, and then drilled... I drilled the ribs after this picture, along with the tank splice plate. It can be seen at the left of this picture... |
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Simple tool for moving ribs around behind skins while drilling. I used a 2x2 piece of wood about 2' long with a notch cut in it so I can grab the rib... |
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Both wings now have all main skins drilled, and the left is completely drilled, less tank... |
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Both wings now completely drilled, less tanks... |
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Left wing walk drilled. It still needs to be cut to size. I spent the rest of the night deburring the left wing. TOO MANY HOLES! And I still have to debur the skins, and dimple the skins and skeleton... Than I have to do it again for the right side! |
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I added a few holes to the tank splice plates and riveted them to the leading edge rib so I wouldn't have to mess with them during riveting of the leading edge skin. I spent the weekend deburring, countersinking, and dimpling... |
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Left leading edge top skin riveted... |
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Leading edge in the jig to finish riveting the skin on... |
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Finished leading edge... Next I riveted the leading edge ribs to the main spar, and then the skins to the main spar... |
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I got the holes for the tie-down and pitot tube drilled, I still need to clean them up, and weld the tie-down closed... |
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Van's had shipped me the wrong platenuts for the wing access plates, and finally got the right ones in the mail, so I worked on those. |
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I got the access plates for the left wing installed... |
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I have been doing a lot of dimpling, and working on the fuel tanks lately. I did, however, get the top-outboard skin on the left wing riveted over the weekend... |
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We finished the top skins on the left wing... I did leave out two ribs on the inboard side of each wing to ease installation. Although I should have left out 3 ribs, leaving out 2 is do-able... |
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I finished squeezing the trailing edge of the top of the left wing... |
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My friend and RV-4 driver, Loyd Remus and I riveted the outboard top skin on the right wing... |
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I was playing around with mounting the aileron on the left wing... I still need to prime and rivet the aileron mounts... |
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Aileron to belcrank pushrods are done... |