Wing Rib Priming Marathon

Tami wanted to run to Omaha tonight after work to go quilt shopping (boring) and after some groveling, I talked her into staying home tonight to help me prep wing ribs for priming.  So now she gets all day Saturday to shop quilts.

We set up an assembly line of sorts.  We sorted all the ribs by wing and in order.  The locations on the ribs scribed with a sharpie marker usually comes off during the alumiprep "scrub" so we wanted to make sure we kept track of which ribs go where.


Really...  We are quite organized all though it doesn't look like it here.


By the time we were done tonight, we had accomplished:

  • Alumiprepping 28 main ribs and 10 leading edge ribs.
  • This represented 8 man-hours of continuous scrubbing of parts.
  • Alodined all ribs, resulting in an additional 3 man-hours of effort.


The first stage of this priming marathon is complete.  Parts are drying tonight and I will be ready to spray on the AKZO epoxy primer tomorrow morning since I don't have to work (gotta like these Fridays off>>  get lots done on the plane).

Its 2 a.m., I am beat.  Time to call it a night (morning)>>>  WHATEVER.