Drilled Wings for Wingtips

I’m going to be using hinges to attach my wingtips.  This necessitates drilling additional holes in the end of the wing so that the hinges are attached with rivets spaced more closely together.  Most of the holes already pushed in the end of the wing skins were about 2.5″ apart, so I used a rivet spacer to drill additional holes between the pre-punched holes.  The hinges need to be spaced back a bit to account for the thickness of the fiberglass tips.  I’m going to use 2 layers of 0.025″ alclad, so I laid out and started cutting the strips.  This was brutal on my hands though, so I didn’t get through all of them tonight.

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