With the bottom skin riveted on, we turned the whole assembly over so we could work inside and on top. The video has you drill out the flaperon arms before the ribs are riveted to the spar but I decided to follow the photo guides and leave it until now. This was a mistake....
Happy Christmas!!! My Christmas present to myself was the installation of the bottom skin, it is starting to look like a wing! To get to that point we had to finish opening all the remaining holes to their final A4 size Then came the painful task of disassembling everything, deburring all the holes and...
Started out today by drilling through the pilot holes in the top skin into the spar. This allowed us to cleco the nose skins in place on the spar. and then drill all the holes in the ribs and nose skins to A4 rivet size. After this we positioned the two trailing edges onto...
Another day, and a fresh pair of eyes on the aligning skin problem. To cut a long story short, I found that the rear rib at station 2 was twisted against the rear channel making the hole spacing at that end incorrect. So, a little more unriveting and with some effort we got the...
If we revisit the finished skeleton and take a look at the rear angle on the rear channel which you can see on top of the channel to the right of the strut support, it didn’t seem right to me that a skin would sit on that properly; it wouldn’t lay flat on the...
The wing skeleton has a rear channel that is made up of two channels that get joined in the middle together with the strut attach bracket. A angle bracket is then attached to one of the channels (I forget which it was) and one side is back drilled into for some A5 rivets. Here...
The big news is that my Dad is in town for the rest of this year and although he initially appeared hesitant to get involved on the project, once he saw what was needed he seemed very much into it. And having someone look things over, hold stuff etc made it a lot easier...
Back after a little break with some small amount of wing building. We had a new floor put down in our living room and we needed the garage space for furniture so I had to break everything down, put things away and for a couple of weeks I was able only to read the...
Really not much to say here, I re-attached the elevator skins to the spar and riveted. This completes the elevator, again. Hopefully this is ok now though I wonder if this time around is any better than my original attempt. With the tail done, I decided to get the first wing spar out of...
First step to finishing the nose rib assembly is to open the holes for an A4 rivet. And then there is the deburring, always with the deburring. I still find a twist of a drill bit the most effective method. Next comes primer and riveting. Four of these will be used “right away” once...