The last time I went to prime some parts, I noticed that curing solution (component B) of my AKZO epoxy primer was cloudy.  The curing solution is supposed to be clear.  The primer (component A) looked "splotchy".  Since I was just doing a little touch-up, I made up a small batch of primer with this primer.

What had happened is when I went to put the primer away during the previous priming session, I placed the lid from component A (primer) on the can for component B (curing solution) and vice versa.  Well, the curing solution reacted with the primer even though they were not in physical contact.  When I opened the curing solution can, there was no primer (solution A) left on the lid.

The small amount of touch up primer I made up with this cross contaminated primer appeared to not cure like it should.  It more or less seemed "soft" for lack of a better term.  I could scrape it off with a light finger nail.

This 2-gallon kit was almost gone so I wasn't to upset about it, but I was really careful with my brand new 2-gallon primer kit.

Even the little bit of curing solution on the component B lid resulted in "splotchy" look to the primer.  AKZO epoxy primer only has a 8-hour pot life after it has been mixed.

It felt really good to be able to take the first wing out of the jig.  My plan this morning was to make the wing cradle, but after scavenging through my lumber pile today, I didn't have enough lumber to make the cradle.  Living here in "Mayberry", it meant a 1.5 hour drive to the nearest Menards or Home Deperate.  Since I am planning on going to an EAA meeting tomorrow, I decided that I would wait on the lumber and start working on the left wing.

I rounded up Tami and after about an hour of riveting, we had all the ribs riveted to the main spar.  It works really well to clamp the spar to the bench and cleco the ribs in as you go.  Crank the air pressure up on the rivet gun to set the 470AD4- rivets and bing, bang, boom...  they are permanently attached.  NO SMILIES THIS TIME EITHER.  I am a happy camper since I didn't have to drill any of them suckers out.

As with the right wing, I placed the factory rivet heads on the thinner material.  There has been some discussion on the Yahoo Group about whether or not it matters which way the universal rivets are installed.  The consensus of the group is that IT DOES NOT MATTER (unless the shop head is going to interefere with something).

Arnold, our hairball puking cat, had to inspect our progress today. 

After I got the rear spar riveted to the aft side of the wing ribs, it was time to put it in the stand.  I thought that this would be a quick evolution, but even the second time around, it took me several hours to get the wing mounted, squared, level, and the twist taken out of it.

The left wing didn't sit in the same place when I tried to line up my notches on the wing stand aluminum angles to allow the skin to be fitted to the wing skeleton.  Being smarter than I was on the right wing, I removed the wing and modified all the notches in the wing stand attach angles before I got the wing mounted and secured to the stand.  It is really hard to notch the attach angles with the wing mounted to them.

Once I got the spar clamped down to the wing stand, I jacked it up in the center with Tami's car jack.  Everything lined up like a champ.

Inboard to outboard, I am about as level as I can get.

To get the wing square, I cleco'd the bottom skins on which then aligned the rear spar.  I then went back and double checked alignment, and twist in the wing.  When I was happy, I clamped the rear spar to the brackets on the wing stand.  Then for a 3rd time after EVERYTHING WAS CLAMPED, I checked sag, square, level, and twist.

The 2nd and last wing of the airplane is now mounted to the wing stand.  WooHOO!!!!

Just a pict of the top side of the left wing.

Mounting the right wing to the stand (detailed log entry):  http://homepage.mac.com/tamoell/airplane/wings/wings04_10_04.htm

Looking at my right wing log entry, it took me 3 months +1 day to get to the point of working on the left wing.  I hope this second wing goes faster!!!  Next time>>>  QUICKBUILD.