Over the last few weeks, I’ve completed a number of steps and logged in my paper log, but haven’t really updated the progress here.
So, in the interest of completeness, and while some primer dries, here’s an update.
4/23/2016
RHS Main spar countersinking–finished the rib/skin attach countersinks; need to complete nutplate holes.
3 hours.
4/26/2016
Received confirmation that J stiffeners can be extended with no negative (from Van’s Aircraft). Misalignment of spars and J channels required either re-making the channels or extending them.
Made Four J-Stiffener extensions approximately 9-1/8″ long each. This allows overlap of 3 rivets in the splice joint.
0.5 hour
4/27/2016
LH Spar bottom countersink complete. Top remains.
1.5 hours
4/30/2016
Machine countersank all lower fuel tank attach screw holes after installing the nutplates on the LH main spar
5 hours.
5/11/2016
Countersank RH main spar top tank attach screw holes
1 hour.
5/14/2016
“Completed Page 13-3 – Finished RH and LH main spar countersinks, installed inspection plate nutplates and countersank.
Spot primed. Widened hole in LH Spar–all per plans. Also primed spar web extensions and doublers.
5 hours
5/15/2016
“Completed page 13-2 step 4 – Web extension riveting, both wings.
Page 13-4, steps 1,2,3,4,5,7 completed L&R. 8&9 completed RH only.”
7 hours.
Total hours to date: 85.75