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Date:  2-19-2020
Number of Hours:  1.50
Manual Reference:  21-02
Brief Description:  Installing strake table starboard side

Looking at the levels with a clear head and spot the obvious, the longerons are also half a bubble nose up and the airplane is leaning to the right. The weight of the wing has loaded up the main gear! Nail the outboard wing jig to a bit of ply, put in in a workbench clamp and boost it up until the longerons are level from side to side. Make small adjustments in the height of the forward sawhorse, coordinated with up/down on the wingtip support until the longerons are indeed level again, fore and aft, and side to side.

Was dissapointed to see the wing incidence is still a smidge nose-up. With the aid of the strake table remove the wing, (on my own!). Change the bottom -816L washer for a -816 and the incidence is lovely. Mmmmmmm. Will have to check the numbers for the port wing, and have them both bolted on when I do so.

Note also that the straightness problem on the bottom of spar is mostly the width of the tapes between the spar and the fuselage, and a couple of flox blobs. This will mostly be hidden by the fairing aft of the fuel sumps, so relieve the surface of the root corner of the strake table until it all looks lovely. Re-tape the table and reinstall it, when it matches the line of the bottom of the spar and is level fore/aft along the a line parallel to the centerline secure it to the fuselage with hot glue blocks and bondo it to the floor. Add hot glue blocks to secure the main undercarriage props to the floor.

Marked up various BL. on the table, plus FS.101 on the table and FS.60 on the fuselage.

Note with alarm the line between these is forward of the edge of my table. I have set it too far under the spar. Not moving it now.
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Nipping off some flox blobs

Nipping off some flox blobs

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Relieving table in vicinity of attachment tapes

Relieving table in vicinity of attachment tapes

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Lining up BL. and transferring to table with plumb bob.

Lining up BL. and transferring to table with plumb bob.

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