1.5 Hours -
Nothing too exciting in this work session. However, it did last about twice as long as I planned.
I finished drilling the aileron gap seals and flap braces to the skins. To do this, I had to partially reinstall the bottom skins, which took some time to install and remove.
Since I had broken down my skin crate when I made the wing cradle, I had the skins (and a few other parts) just sitting on my workbench. For longer term storage, I decided to build a little shelf in the cradle between my wings. Nothing fancy, just a couple lengths of 2” x 4” nailed to the top of the cradle about half an inch apart. The skins slide vertically between these and also rest against the vertical angled support of the cradle. If nothing else, it keeps the skins out of the way, yet easily accessible.
Once I had everything drilled, I removed the bottom skins, as well as the flap braces and aileron gap seals. With these off, I could access a rivet in the left inboard aileron bracket that wasn’t set well and was bothering me. When drilling out the rivet, I slightly enlarged the hole, so I replaced it with a 5- rivet. After this rivet was set, I also installed 4 other rivets (two in each wing) through the aft spar, reinforcement and rib, that I originally left open because I thought they were used for the flap braces. However, after I test fit the flap braces (and double checked the plans) I realized that these rivets could have been set previously. Oh well, a few hits from the rivet gun and they were in.
