Worked on wing stand: 1 hour

Cut a few pieces for the support arms.

 

Lots of hardware for the adjustable arms:

 

 

 

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Worked on wing stand: 5 hours

Came up with a plan for building my wing construction stands in the garage. Then I went out to Home Depot and Ace Hardware for materials.

I got the wood support post assembled and installed. For the other end of the support I will use an existing steel column.

 

Support post:

 

 

 

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Worked on left wing skeleton: 9.2 hours

I started out by drilling holes for the plate nuts that will hold the in-wing landing lights. These lights go in the leading edge at the last bay before the wing tip. I'm planning on using LED's but I will just be installing the mounts for now.

After that I attached the leading edge ribs to the forward spar and match drilled them. Then I attached the main ribs to the front and rear spar and match drilled them.

I then disassembled everything and started deburring and prepping parts for priming. I got the spars and the leading edge ribs ready. I also started working on the main ribs but I still have quite a few to do.

Leading edge ribs. (The inboard part of the leading edge is made up of the fuel tank.)

Match drilling the ribs to the front spar:

Main wing skeleton, ready to match drill rear spar.

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More rib prep: 2.5 hours

Finished fluting left wing ribs.

Located and drilled holes for electrical conduit, and snap bushings for pitot line, aoa line and antenna cables.

 

Transferring pilot holes rib to rib.

 

The large hole is for the flexible conduit and the 3 small ones are for aoa, antenna and pitot lines.

 

 

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Left wing rib prep: 5.1 hours

Smoothed all the edges on the left wing ribs. I also started straightening the flanges and fluting the ribs.

 

Rib flange straightener in action:

 

Straightened and fluted ribs:

 

 

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Riveted right rear spar: 1.5 hours

Riveted right rear spar components together.

 

Ready to rivet.

 

 

 

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Worked on right rear spar: 2.7 hours

Got the right rear spar prepped and primed. Now ready to rivet. Definitely went faster than the left.

 

Priming done.

 

Ready to rivet.

 

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