Tonight I enlisted the help of my buddy Dave to bash and set a bunch of the big 3/16 (-6) rivets to assemble the main wing spars. For this job I used the 5x rivet gun and set my compressor to deliver 90 psi. The 5x gun worked pretty good for the most part, however […]
Rear Wing Spar Assembly
Today, the task I’m setting out to get the rear wing spars ready for riveting. In the image below, I’m working to locate the TR-W-007F rear spar – aileron attach doubler which is riveted to the rear side of the rear spars. This is a bit tricky as the plans don’t give you much in […]
Wing Spar Comparison
Just a short blog post today. As I was picking up the F1 main wing spars off the storage rack, I noticed that it was stacked on top of the Stewart S-51 main spar webs. I took these two pictures as I think many of you will find the difference in size between these spars […]
Spar Cap Riveting
Now that the front spar web doubler and main spar web have been attached, riveted through the spar web spacer blocks, it’s now time for me to proceed with getting the spar caps riveted. This is pretty exciting and somewhat of a challenge as the spar caps are riveted using AN470AD6 rivets of various lengths. […]