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June 14, 2005: (2.0 hrs.) Fabricated the wing walk doubler for the left wing. Here it is clamped to the underside of the top inboard skin and being match drilled. |
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Once the wing walk doubler was created, the top skins were cleco'd to the skeleton. I then spent some time adjusting the jig to make sure there was no twist in the wing. |
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June 16, 2005: (2.0 hrs.) Installed the bottom skins this evening. I also spent some time cleco'ing the leading edge ribs to the leading edge skin. |
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June 17, 2005: (3.0 hrs.) Matched drilled the bottom skins and then removed them from the wing. Next, the leading edge was installed and match drilled. |
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Fabricated the left leading edge joint plate and match drilled it with the end rib. I also started on fabricating the tank z-brackets. |
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June 18: (5.0 hrs.) Besides starting on the left tank today, I went ahead and match drilled the top skins and then removed them. Next, I moved on to deburring the left wing skeleton. |
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I needed to paint the leading edge joint plate, end rib, and z-brackets, but felt I needed a larger number of parts to paint to make it worth while to mix primer. I decided that I would machine counter sink all the skin attach holes in the main spar and then prime those at the same time as the other parts. |
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Max was hear today and helped quite a bit. Here he is deburring the leading edge skin. The leading edge ribs were also deburred. |
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After dimpling the leading edge skin and ribs, the parts were riveted together. This is the point I really wanted to get to today while Max was around to help buck rivets. |
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Leading edge riveted together and placed on the main spar. Maybe tomorrow I can rivet it to the spar. |