Now that I’m feeling better, I got started prepping the bottom wing skins for riveting. I deburred and dimpled two of the skins and installed the nutplates in three of the six cutouts. After the wing skins, I only have a small punch list of items to complete before I’m ready to rivet the bottom skins on:
- Put remaining tank bolts in place and torque all tank bolts.
- Put proseal around conduit where it penetrates each rib to prevent vibration from cutting through them.
- Reroute roll servo wire through smaller rubber grommet so that the wire can’t move as much.
- Fix a couple of bent rib flanges inside the main spar flanges
- Fabricate a support angle to tie the pitot tube mount to the adjacent rib to keep the skin from having to carry any flexing load.
