Brief Description: Wings get inserts and bolted up
Time to flox in those inserts. After alodining them overnight I checked the matched set for their respective holes. Two were just marginal length so I ground them down and used my alodine pen to recover the ends. Then I checked the lengths yet again. OK. I'm happy.
I again cleaned all the holes, mixed epoxy and coated both the holes and the inserts with pure stuff, then mixed some wet flox and did the deed (inserted the12 inserts). Next up was to bolt the wings together (with my waxed bolts and nuts) which took a couple of hours. Yes it is something I need to address with a special set of jigs and tools. For now the wings are together. Wooooww!
I then re-leveled the wings in incidence waterline and leveled the CS spar. More herding cats ...so what I did was encourge the wings into the correct position with foam blocks and my jigs. Where it will be when they are relaxed I do not know. The water line started out spot on but drifted as I tweaked. The wings have a lot of flex in them of course too. The incidence was my #1 priorety. I've done my best to get things level while the flox was curing. Not that there was much give in the system.
I then sat at the airfield for another 3 hours with the wings under a heat tent to cure that tiny bit of epoxy and flox. I turned off the heaters overnight but came in the next day and got them both on again for a full day. The leftover epoxy passes the scratch test. I'll leave it another day anyway and then we are good to go for the next step.
Ready to insert
Incidence looking good
Heat tents with my flying plane in the background.
