Now that all the ribs have been located (with the exception of the aileron bellcrank rib), the next step is to locate and drill the rear spar to the ribs. For me, the best place to start the work of locating the rear spar is to begin with getting the end ribs perfectly perpendicular to […]
Right wing assembly – part 2 – Leading edge ribs
In the last post we left off with getting the outboard ribs located (# 12 and 13) as shown below. Then I got the leading edge rib attach angle clamped in place. On the backside of the angle, I marked the edge distance and a centerline down the flange that is clamped against the spar. […]
Right wing assembly – part 1
The plan for today is to start assembling the skeleton of the right wing. That is to get all the ribs drilled to the spar. As seen on the picture below, there is a flange on the forward side of the ribs. This rib is later fastened attached to the spar with blind rivets. As […]
Primer testing
Today my buddy JW and I started going down the primer rabbit hole, and thought we would attempt some completely non-scientific, testing of the primers we have. This test is purely based on our initial impressions, nothing more. So on hand, we have the following 3 (self-etching) primers. For the testing we sprayed a test […]