Month: January 2011

I finished installing all of the adel clamps today. Now all I need to do is label the wires and finishing tying them off at the wing tip.

I finished making the remaining wire support brackets and riveted them to the ribs. I used my pneumatic angle drill to drill the holes through ribs. Once all of the brackets were mounted I pulled the eight wires required for the lights, through the wing lightening holes. I used twelve feet of wire for each. Once all of the wires were pulled I began installing the adel clamps to hole the wire bundle in place. Between each clamp I tied the bundle using wire lace.

I worked at the wiring for the left wing today. I started by marking the holes for the harness support brackets. I had some of the brackets left over from the right wing so I riveted these in place. Next I laid out some additional brackets and cut them out. I drilled the inside corner hole to 1/8" so that I could trim the brackets. Once I had the brackets trimmed I used my bench sander to clean up the corners

Today I worked on riveting the skins for the top of the right wing. In progressively installed clecos and pulled rivets until all were done. I left the last row at the wing tip as pulling the tip skin around seems to require a fair bit of force and I would rather wait until I rivet the other side. There was on rivet that when installed interfered with the angle at the tie down bracket. For this rivet, I used the manual puller and kept some pressure on the rivet so that it would be drawn in as I pulled.