Last night, I clecoed the Right Flap “skeleton” together as illustrated in this plans excerpt:
Tonight’s session concentrated on turning those clecos into RIVETS. All of the rivets installed tonight were AN470AD4-4 and set with my hand squeezer. Here are some examples:
The Inboard and Outboard Rod End Rib Subassemblies.....
.....Inboard Hinge Pair Subassemblies.....
.....a couple of the Main Ribs.....
.....and the Outboard Hinge Pair Subassemblies.
Once that was done, it was time to cleco the Nose and Top Skin into place in preparation for rivet installation. Van’s says do it like this:
Here are a few pictures of the Nose and Top Skins rivets to the Flap “skeleton”.
Here is a view of the Nose and Top Skins clecoed into place. You can’t really tell from the picture, but the Top Skin gets installed BETWEEN the Spar and Nose Skin.
This is the opposite side (of the picture above) where the Bottom Skin will eventually be installed.
