{"id":1243,"date":"2009-05-19T17:21:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T17:21:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-14T22:01:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T22:01:02","slug":"fit-top-wing-skins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2009\/05\/19\/fit-top-wing-skins\/","title":{"rendered":"Fit Top Wing Skins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The weight of the wing causes the middle to sag a bit, so I put a support near the middle of the rib. \u00a0This is basically just a piece of steel tubing and some allthread with a washer and nut. \u00a0I put a couple of plastic feet on each end to prevent scratching the spar and to prevent it from slipping on the floor.<\/p>\n

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\nI stretched a piece of fishing line across the lower set of holes in the spar and adjusted the support until the fishing line ran through the center of all of them.<\/p>\n

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\nThe wing walk doublers have to be cut from a larger piece of aluminum sheet.<\/p>\n

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\nThen positioned under the top wing skin for match drilling.<\/p>\n

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\nHere are both doublers match drilled to the top skins.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s late, but I just had to see what these looked like clecoed to the skeletons. \u00a0I’m really glad I ordered some extra 3\/32″ clecoes and I’m really<\/span>\u00a0glad I have the pneumatic cleco tool. \u00a0I know my hands would be killing me if I had to do this with regular cleco pliers.<\/p>\n

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\nHere is a closeup of the overlap between the inboard and outboard top skins. \u00a0Before riveting these on for good, I’ll create a slight bevel on these skins to reduce the bulge.<\/p>\n

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The weight of the wing causes the middle to sag a bit, so I put a support near the middle of the rib. \u00a0This is basically just a piece of steel tubing and some allthread with a washer and nut. \u00a0I put a couple of plastic feet on each end to prevent scratching the spar … 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-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","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=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3965,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/3965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}