Author: dwitt3234

I finished prepping the rear spar and proceeded to deburr the holes in the main spar caps.

I started this morning by continuing to dismantle the right wing so that I can start the final deburring process before riveting. After dismantling the right wing I used my soldering iron to cut through the protective coating along the rivet lines, then I removed the coating on the bottom skin along the rivet lines. Next, I’m going to cutout the access hole using a series of small drilled holes. After drilling the perimeter of the access hole, I used my tin snips to complete the access hole cutout and then grabbed my half round file and filed away all of the sharp edges. I deburred all of the holes on the bottom skin out side and also worked at sanding the edges. Tonight I finished deburring the edges an running scotchbrite over the holes to remove any final burrs. Next time I’ll remove the protective coating from the inside of the skin and finish the deburring.

Today I continued up drilling the right wing skins. I completed the rear edge of the top skin and then moved on to the leading edge skin. I removed the clecos and refit the leading edge skin so that the overlap was correct against the bottom skin. After clecoing the leading edge skin back in place, I up drilled half of the holes in the bottom of the leading edge skin to #33 in preparation for dimpling. The last step will be to up drill the holes into the main spar on the bottom of the wing. After dinner I finished the up drilling and started to dismantle the wing. I removed the bottom wing skin.

This morning I put away the control surfaces for the right wing. Then I proceeded to up drill most of the holes in the bottom right wing skin to #30. I left the holes that go through the main spar. I need to reverse the overlap between the rear skin and the leading edge skin before drilling these.

Today I worked on fitting the right aileron. I drilled all of the holes that were accessible from the underside. The remainder will have to wait until after I remove the control surfaces.

Today I worked on the top of the right wing. I drilled all of the holes through the main spar to #30.

Today I made the lower mount for the right wing landing light lens.