Brief Description: Install Wing Root Gap Fairing Platenuts - Top Skin
Before Matt can come down from NY again to help me install the wings I need to install the platenuts for the wing root gap fairing. I forgot I had to do this otherwise I would have taken care of this while I still had the wings in my basement.
I used the #8 platenut jig to drill the rivet holes for all of the nutpates on the top of each wing along the wing root area. These platenuts are K1000's that require the material to be countersunk for the screws rather than dimpled. Since the wing walk area has 2 layers of skin along with the flange of the inboard wing rib, countersinking for the screws is no problem. However for the fuel tank skin and for the bottom of the wing, there is only 1 layer of skin and the rib flange and the plans call for dimpling those areas rather than countersinking, which requires K1100 platenuts instead.
Unfortunately I lent my large dimple dies to Professor Don Pratt at Messiah College so I won't be able to install the K1100 platenuts in those areas until I ask for them back.
However, I was able to drill all of the rivet holes for the platenuts for the top of both wings, countersink them, and then rivet the K1000 platenuts using the pneumatic squeezer.
Using #8 platenut jig to drill rivet holes for the platenuts
