I moved the ailerons to the kitchen since our granite countertops are the flattest surface in our house. I weighted them down with some books.
I set the pop rivets in the counterbalance weight wet since these are aluminum rivets holding on a galvanized steel pipe.
These are pop riveted on first.
Then the nose rib rivets are set, followed by the rivets on the main ribs. Finally, blind rivets are used to fasten the nose and trailing edge skins to the bottom of the spar.
After everything is riveted on, the hinge brackets can be bolted to the spar. I’ve added some torque seal so that I can confirm these bolts are still tight during preflights.
The outer bolts get torque seal on the nut side. The bolt above with torque seal threads into a nutplate on the other side of this rib.
