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SAM'S WEB SITE
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Date: 4-19-2012
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Number of Hours: 1.90
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Brief Description: Riveted top inboard skin
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Tonight Steve and I discovered that we were both without adult supervision, so made the most of it. After dinner at the Downwind, a restaurant with a deck overlooking the runways at PDK, we retired to my shop to finish riveting the top skins to the right wing. That only took an hour and a half or so, then we took the wing off the stand and put it in the rack. We had to turn it end for end first, and that was a trick in my cramped office/airplane factory basement, but we got it turned without dropping it.
After getting it in the cradle, I discovered that there was no room to work on the inside, to install the roll servo, aileron bellcrank and gap fairing, etc. After puzzling over the possibilities, I think the easiest thing will be to place it back on the stand, but in the nose down position as it now sits in the cradle. Rather than try to turn it end for end again, I just switched the crossarms on the stand uprights, since one of them has grooves cut into it for the projecting skins to fit.
Then, I started to squeeze the skin to rear spar rivets, but found that the driven side was too close to the spar web, and my yoke did not have quite a deep enough throat to make that work well, so started driving them. Got tired and left about half of them to do tomorrow.
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The inboard top skin all riveted in place, except for the rear spar row.
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Wings in the cradle, but too close to work on the inside of the right wing. (Left in the picture)
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The rest of the trailing edge rivets to be driven later, with a reflection of the hero builder.
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