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SAM'S WEB SITE
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Date: 6-25-2011
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Number of Hours: 5.00
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Brief Description: Got left aileron clecoed together
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I had to go to Steve's Wednesday afternoon to borrow his tungsten bucking bar to get in the tight space inside the right aileron trailing edge. Before driving the rivets, I match drilled and countersunk where appropriate the aileron spars and reinforcement plates that go at the ends for both ailerons, and primed the parts for the left aileron, Got ahead of myself again, and riveted the nose ribs to the left aileron spar instead of just match drilling them to the spar like the directions say. Had to drill them out, because the rear hole in the front of the nose rib has to be drilled out and blind riveted into the counterweight, a piece of 1/2" galvanized steel pipe. Just can't do all that with the rib riveted to the spar.
After clecoing the skin to the ribs and spar, I drilled out all the holes, moved the clecoes, and did the rest. It was getting late, and the air drill is pretty loud, so when epithets started raining down the stairs, I curtailed the drilling operation before drilling the counterweight to the leading edge skin.
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These last 2 rivets are much more difficult to drive when you start to bend the skin first
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Inboard end of the left aileron showing nose and main ribs and reinforcing plate
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The left aileron clecoed together the first time
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