Today I ventured into getting the rear spar W-407D doubler drilled to the spar along with the W-407B and W-407C flanges. This took me quite a while to figure out. At first, as you will see below, ribs just weren’t lining up with their appropriate locations. It took a little bit of work before I […]
New Band Saw and Rear Spar Flange Doubler
Today I progressed with working on the rear spar attach flanges and I also got a chance to try out my new bandsaw. New Bandsaw For the bandsaw, it is a Milwaukee corded hand-held metal cutting band saw. As a tool on its own, it’s not the most practical for using in building an airplane, […]
Rear Wing Spar Orientation
Over the past few days I realized that I am missing the main wing spar doubler extension pieces that are necessary for the Sport Wing modifications. Because of this little oversight, I’m now at a full stop in the main wing spar progress and have decided to proceed with the rear wing spars. When starting […]
Main Spar Spacer Blocks
Now that the left wing spar web and beams are primed, I’m going to start working on the spar spacer blocks. These are spacers between the spar cap beams which add rigidity to the spar in the area of the spar web doubler. The spar web doubler on the forward side of the spar in […]