Friday, February 16, 2018

Wings, Rear Spar (Part 15)

This work was completed on Thursday, February 15th.  I missed the midnight deadline for posting.....

I completed the Akzo priming of the Rear Spar Reinforcement Fork and the Rear Spar Doubler Plate.  Both pieces were then clecoed into place as shown below:

Now, it’s time to install some rivets!  As with the Left Wing, the Right Wing will get the same number and size of rivets.  The Wing Rib to Rear Spar locations will get AN470AD4-4 universal rivets.  As an example, here are Wing Ribs #6 and #7 after being riveted to the Rear Spar.  As a reminder, the horizontal row of holes will be used in a later section to attach the gap seals.

Here are the rivets installed in the Rear Spar Doubler Plate and Rear Spar.....which is also used in the installation of the Outboard Aileron Hinge Bracket. The Aileron Hinge Bracket will be riveted to the Spar and Wing Rib #14 later in the build.

All of the AN470AD4-4 rivets have now been installed on the Rear Spar.  Here is the Rear Spar Doubler (Outboard)  and the Inboard Aileron Hinge Bracket.  You can see I had a little bit of primer run on the right side of the Doubler.....Oops, my bad!

Rear Spar Doubler (Inboard).....

And the lone AN470AD4-4 rivet (between the clecos) installed on Wing Rib #5 and the Rear Spar. 

Tomorrow, I will move on to the other sizes of rivets and hopefully finish this section.