6/25/2008 Fluting Ribs - 2 hours More fluting / straightening here and there, a little over half way done.
6/30/2008 Right Wing Skeleton - 3 hours Tonight was a milestone - I'm basically done with rib preparation. It took me what - 2 months? I was busy with other things and terribly unmotivated, but tonight all that changed.
Dad and I built up the right wing skeleton, checking and double checking and triple checking that we had the correct ribs in place since we were working off the left wing drawing. All holes have been match drilled and deburred and all the contact surfaces have been primed.
7/02/2008 Right Wing Skeleton Riveted - 6 hours
In the shop I started by enlarging all three forward tooling holes in the ribs to 7/16" for the 1/4" ID snap bushings I got from Aircraft Spruce. These will be for the Pitot / AOA lines and one extra for whatever. I also put in a 3/4" hole for conduit per the instructions. Dad did some detail deburring on the ribs and also deburred the newly drilled holes.
After a few hours of that, we got to actually riveting the ribs to the spars. We only had to drill out one rivet, which was placed where a flap hinge bracket would go.
7/06/2008 Wing Stands - 7 hours A short run to Home Depot for some red-heads (not women, concrete anchors) and a few extra C-clamps and we were back in the shop ready to go. A few weeks ago I had marked on the floor approximately where I wanted to put my wing stands. I got these wing stands from Paul Rose in Alabama (PaulR on VAF) - very nicely made from extruded aluminum tube and angle. We bolted the stands to the floor at 114" apart. We had to use cardboard to level one of the stands. We then set the wing on the stand and got the sag out with a jack in the center made from 7/16" all-thread and some blocks of wood. We then measured the twist in the wing - right around 1"! After leveling both ends of the spar and doing a little tweaking, we got the twist down to within 1/64" along the entire length. We clamped it down and called it a
