I built my wings a couple of years ago and I'm just getting back to doing the service bulletin on the pickup tubes in the tanks, hoping to fly this spring.
Anyway, I remembered a mistake I made on the outboard aileron attach brackets, or rather on the outboard wing rib that I wanted to run by you guys but haven't done so until now.
Please take a look at the 3 attached photos.
I enlarged the aft tooling holes in each of the aft wing ribs just ahead of the rear spar to run wiring conduit, including the outboard-most rib where the aileron attach bracket is located. I didn't look far enough ahead and this caused a problem with riveting the outboard aileron attach brackets to the web of the ribs, which now had a 13/16' hole in the middle.
At the time, I ended up riveting an 0.40 doubler to the inside of the rib web and riveted around the 13/16' hole but looking at it now, perhaps I should have replaced the rib.
I tried to capture the problem from both the inside and outside of the rib for you to look at. Is this a satisfactory fix or should I replace the ribs and brackets?
As always, thanks for your help!
Dan Reeves RV-7A 70822
And received this response from Gus Funnell:
That fix looks satisfactory, you don't need to replace the rib.
Vans
Definitely good news! I feel much better about this now!
Aileron attach bracket - fix to 13/16" wiring conduit hole
Aileron attach bracket - fix to 13/16" wiring conduit hole
