Things have been moving right along. I haven’t been very good about putting the updates out to the interwebs though. So, this is my big update for about the last two weeks.
The first thing to note is that I got the rib to clip areas primed. After that Maria helped out and riveted the clips to the ribs. We then riveted the clips to the spar for ribs 4 and 11. One thing I realized after this was that the modified clips for the root rib probably could be riveted in before the trailing edge spar fitting is installed. If you go much further, the rivet for the lower hole in the trailing edge root rib clip hits the spar fitting. Not impossible to deal with, but might make life a little easier. I then worked on getting the ribs into place. This requires the removing of drag braces and one compression tube to get everything to fit right.
The bellcrank was finished prior to the rib work and is ready to be finished once the ribs are final installed.
Up next was the always nervous fuel tank drilling. I first drilled the holes for the sight gauge fittings and the tank withdrawal fitting. A few days went by prior to getting the rest drilled since this happened a little bit before I got the ribs clecoed in. Once the ribs were in I clecoed in the upper root skin to get the center point for the fuel cap opening. I got that done relatively quickly and painlessly. I learned from the left wing that I should go ahead and finish all the drilling of the retainer, scupper, and cap holes so I can clean the tank out prior to installing the fuel fitting. I didn’t do this last time and I had to be creative to clean then and hope I didn’t leave anything in the tanks.
So that’s it for now. This wing is going pretty quick. I’m hoping to get the fittings in today or early tomorrow so I can get the tanks leak tested and get the ribs final installed.
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