{"id":1241,"date":"2009-05-21T17:21:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T17:21:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-14T22:01:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T22:01:46","slug":"finished-drilling-main-skins-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2009\/05\/21\/finished-drilling-main-skins-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished Drilling Main Skins and Fit Outboard Leading Edge Skins"},"content":{"rendered":"

My buddy Andre stopped by tonight and drilled all of the bottom main skins while I worked on getting the leading edge skins ready to install. \u00a0I started with fabricating a simple cradle to hold the skins while fitting the ribs. \u00a0This is just a couple of pieces of particle board roughly cut to the shape of the ribs and lined with some old carpet padding I had laying around. \u00a0The shape really isn’t that critical since it just needs to help hold the skins closed while you get the clecos in place.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b>\u00a0Particleboard is really the wrong material for this as this fixture will take a fair amount of abuse during the build. \u00a0Both of these U shaped pieces broke near the bottom of the U while working on my outboard leading edges. \u00a0I didn’t need them anymore, so I didn’t fix them, but save yourself the hassle and use plywood.<\/p>\n

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\nAndre and I clecoed the leading edge ribs into place and fit the leading edge of the left wing in place.<\/p>\n

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\nThe innermost rib needs to be fitted with a joint plate where nutplates will mount to help hold the fuel tank. \u00a0This was a real bitch since there are no holes in either the joint plate or the rib and the fit is really<\/span>\u00a0tight. \u00a0After futzing with it for about 10 minutes, I finally got everything in place and drilled a few holes to hold everything in alignment. \u00a0The only issue I ran into was one of the holes that attach the rib to the main spar ended up with too little edge clearance. \u00a0I doubt it will be an issue, but I’ll check with Van’s just to be sure.<\/p>\n

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\nAfter Andre left, I knocked out the other leading edge in an hour or so. \u00a0These still need to be match drilled, but that can wait until tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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My buddy Andre stopped by tonight and drilled all of the bottom main skins while I worked on getting the leading edge skins ready to install. \u00a0I started with fabricating a simple cradle to hold the skins while fitting the ribs. \u00a0This is just a couple of pieces of particle board roughly cut to the … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3967,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/3967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}