Author: dwitt3234

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.

I installed the fasteners for the root ribs. I had to add washers to correct the grip length. The fasteners all seemed to long but the plans call for a washer on each side. I had to add a third washer to ensure that the nut would not expose more than three threads on each bolt.

Today I finished installing the nut plates for the right wing access cover. I think I have two final things to do before I can start riveting the wings skins. I need to install and torque the tie down eye and I need to up drill two holes for the root rib for AN3 fasteners. The plans call for 2 rivets and two bolts but I have decided to use 4 bolts.

Today I began working on the spacer plates for the nut plates to be attached to the wing skin.

I fixed a couple of rivets that didn’t set correctly on the weekend.