Picking Up Where I Left Off

Today, I decided to I could no longer delay myself from starting back up on the wings.  I have been working on things around the house and working some more of that free "salaried overtime".  Anyway, I have been reviewing my logs and looking over the wings to see where I left off on them so long ago.

I decided that I could pickup on some odds and ends that lent themselves to mindless riveting and clecoing.....
I started by riveting the aileron brackets to the rear spar.  Note the gray primer touch up job.  Well, when I left off last, I started riveting the aileron brackets to the spar when I realized that the rivet under the gray primer was actually a AN470 rivet instead of a AN426 rivet as called for by the prints.  Last time I stopped in Plattsmouth, I checked Kevin Faris's project out and check the air gap between the aileron and this bracket.  Sure enough, if the aileron didn't rub on the rivet head, it was EXTREMELY close....  I decided to drill out that rivet and install a AN426 rivet as called out in the plans.


Of course, I made the mistake on the inboard and outboard aileron brackets.


Once I got done with fixing the aileron brackets, I clecoed up the aileron gap seal and riveted it to the wing.


Next I started riveting the leading edge on the right wing to the spar.  It had been so long since I worked on the wing, I took about an hour or so and checked my rigging of the spar in the stand.  I made sure that there was no sag or twist in the spar.  Once i verified that I was good here, I proceed in clecoing the top skin to the skeleton.


I pretty much riveted the leading edge to the wing spar exactly as I did with the right wing with one exception.  I used the Cherrymax rivets to attach the wings outboard ribs to the spar.  See my right wing leading edge log entry.  Right wing leading edge entry


This went pretty fast considering that I haven't done much in the last year +...


The leading edge, now attached permanently to the wing...


I made reservations with my bucking partner to rivet the top skins on tomorrow after work.  We should be able to make quick work of that (relatively) if we get started right after work (and I don't have to put in some of that free salaried overtime I have been getting plenty of).