Brief Description: Finished Riveting main ribs to spars
I got home from work and continued to rivet the main ribs to the spars. All went well except for one rivet that had to be drilled out....TWICE!! I hate when that happens.....The other rivets all look very good. I might have to drill out one or two more, but I will look at it fresh again tomorrow and decide. Next I got to pull out the first skin panel from my storage racks. The inboard top skins have a "Wing Walk Doubler " inserted to give that area extra strength. This is where you step on the wing to enter the cockpit. I measured the locations, then drilled a three hole on each of the ribs below the doubler. I did both left and right wings. I started to cleco the inboard skin & doubler on the wing frame, when I realized I would soon run out of clecoes. This is the problem with moving ahead, like I did on the Leading edges and the tanks. I used up a lot of clecos. I did order another 100 today and should get them next week. In the mean time, I removed many clecos from the leading edges to use on the skins.......Gotta do what ya gotta do.
Left wing ribs all riveted to spars
Big Joe marking the location of the wing walk doubler
