(8-8 step 8):
With the day off yesterday we were anxious to get back at
it. Angela had some things to do around the house so she jumped
on that first thing. I started out by cleaning up the skins and
getting them in the cradles. Next was to pull the nose ribs off
the spar assembly and cleco them into the skins. After that the
front spar with the inspar ribs attached went in and was clecoed to the
nose ribs. Then I had to cleco the skin to the front spar (but
not the inspar ribs in order to allow access for the stringers to slip
in)
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This
is a shot showing the holes that we misdrilled in the front spar a
while back (the marked holes with the gold clecoes) Prior to
putting the front spar assembly in the cradles I had to open these
holes up to 1/8" to match the larger holes in the front spar.
These will be final drilled to #30 when we final drill the skin holes.
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(8-9 step 1):
Angela took a break & came in to get some hands on! We
dropped the stringgers in place and then started clecoing the skins to
them and the inspar ribs. With two of us doing this it wasn't too
bad!
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(8-9 step 2): Next step was to drop the rear spar assembly in place. Once in there, Angela clecoed it in place.
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(8-9 step 3): Once
the rear spar assembly was clecoed in place we got to final drill the
rear spar to the inspar ribs. After the rear spar we clecoed in
the stringer web between the exposed part of the stringers in the
middle of the horizontal stabilizer. Once in place I final
drilled it with the stringers, and then to the inner two inspar
ribs. This was the first use of our angle drill... this thing is
much louder than I expected!
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(8-9 step 4): And
the final step before taking all of this back apart… final
drilling the skin holes. Angela & I tag-teamed this for a
while, before we headed off in search of a torque wrench to attach the
hinge bracket we left off the rear spar assembly a while back (we
weren't sure what time the stores close today being a holiday)
Once back, I got back on it while Angela finished up what she was
working on earlier in the day. This was a lot of repetative
stuff, but the biggest deal was making sure none of the holes were
missed.
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| Next time, we'll tear all this
down (bummer!)... but it means we're close to putting it back together
permanently! (woohoo!) |
