Right leading edge skin damage
It was dreadful when it happened. I spent full day today to calmed down enough to document what happened with the right leading edge top skin. Damage I previously moved the right wing to the floo...
It was dreadful when it happened. I spent full day today to calmed down enough to document what happened with the right leading edge top skin. Damage I previously moved the right wing to the floo...
TLDR Right aileron minus alignment Right flap minus alignment (Incomplete) Right trailing edge rivets (Incomplete) Right landing light lens Riveted all left ribs Left rear spar Deta...
TLDR Prepped right aileron parts Modified dimple die to fit DRDT Dimple die I needed to grind a little chunk off of the 4.0mm female dimple die. This is to provide clearance to dimple the ...
TLDR Installed right leading edge Details The new rivet gun has arrived. I tried it on a few spare rivets and it worked. So I proceeded to rivet the right leading edge skin. Here we go! T...
TLDR Dimpled and clecoed all left ribs Debugged rivet gun Left ribs My friend Daniel came over today to help. Our plan: finish left rib 1, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11. I gave Daniel a 5 minute crash...
TLDR Completed right top skin prep Completed right (outboard) leading edge prep Clecoed right leading edge to the wing Started riveting Top skin Prep Top skin prep = clean, dimple, de...
TLDR Fixed rib 9 rivet clearance Cleaned a bunch of parts for right top skin Started dimpling Details Rib 9 I got an answer back from Sling on the rivet clearance issue on rivet 9. The...
TLDR Laid out wiring harness in the right wing Built connectors Tested continuity Details Call me slow but a 30 minutes job turned into 4 hours across 2 days. I thought feeding wires th...
TLDR Cleaned right wing top root skin Cleaned all left ribs that requires assembly Details My fingers are still raw from riveting the bottom skin, so I did not do anything heavy weight tod...
TLDR Riveted the right bottom skin (except 1 rivet) Prepped wing hardness Rigth bottom skin Continuing the work I started earlier this week, I spent many hours to insert rivets and pulled ...