I spend almost 2½ hours in the shop tonight, and even though it didn’t look like much, I got a lot of small things done.
First I taped the wing walk-way doublers in place under the inboard top skins.
Then I flipped the skin over and drilled all the holes from the prepunched holes in the skin.
With all the holes drilled, I could fit the doubler to the wing ribs…
After the skins were cleco’ed back on I was short on cleco’s, so I decided to set the tanks aside for now. I removed the tank skins, marked all the stiffeners for position and removed those also. Then I removed the leading edges and started finetuning the wings in the stand. I hung plumbs in each end to check the twist in the wings, and adjusted the lower spar a little bit. Blurry picture, I know, I am still using my fathers old camera since mine is broken.
My plan is to install the bottom skins next, then matchdrill all the skins to the skeleton. I might see if I can borrow some more cleco’s from work..
wow – you are really getting something done! 🙂
BTW – the offers are still standing, should you be interested… 🙂
…of coarse i’m interested!! 😀 Just need these skins ready first! Thanks Steen.
Excellent 🙂 I take great interest in your “progress” 🙂 Great work and damned!! You are a dedicated and skilled person.