Wing buttoning up check list

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I am searching for a wing buttoning up checklist from the old forum. I believe it was posted by Robbie (sonex1517), but not 100% sure. It was a list of items that were done before riveting the wing skins.

Does anyone remember that and can you point me to it?

Thanks,
Kevin

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I couldn’t find it - but I almost forgot to put in the wiring conduit before we riveted the wing closed. You can see it in one of Adam’s time lapse videos.

Also, some time after the wings were closed up, I found the brackets for routing the pitot-static lines in the wings. Still in the bag, in a box of stuff. Whoops. As I was considering between the wing mounted pivot, and Kip’s really cool tail mounted pitot, this omission both saved weight and made my choice easy.

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Ha! Are you sure those couple of brackets and a couple rivets were heavier than the tubing run to the tail and phenolic block back there? LOL

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I’m not going to check!

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I checked and I no longer have that document.

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Thanks for checking.

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I just found it - it had been posted by Noel.

Before I rivet the wing skins…

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 12:52 am

by NWade

Yes, I know I’m not the first guy to post along these lines… But getting the RH wing built has been a long time coming. Before I actually rivet the skins to my RH wing, could someone run down this list and let me know if I’m missing anything?

Here are the items I’ve done - any help spotting little items (or “tricks” to take care of with the skins still off) would be appreciated:

  1. Main & Aft Spar assembled, all bolts tightened (spar mounting blocks only pilot-drilled)

  2. Spars & ribs, all surface-prepped, assembled, & riveted together

  3. Aileron bellcrank, assembled and riveted to the rib (along with stiffeners, ready to rivet to upper & lower aft wing skins)

  4. Aileron pushrods, installed per plans

  5. Wing tie-down hole drilled in lower skin (tie-down angle secured to main spar, but no tiedown bolt/nut yet - I’m assuming I can take care of this after riveting, with the inspection hole nearby for the Aileron bellcrank)

  6. Snap-bushings installed & pitot-static lines run

  7. Snap-bushings installed in all fwd rib tooling holes (nearest spar), with nylaflow tube running through them and 4-conductor shielded wiring inside of that (for LED wingtip lights)

  8. Snap-bushings installed in all fwd rib tooling holes (nearest leading edge), with 2 tefzel wires running through the snap-bushings (protected with short bits of heat-shrink where they pass through snap-bushings) - these run to rib #11 for a Duckworks landing light

  9. Duckworks landing light almost completely installed (missing final bits of tape to align second lens retaining strip)

  10. Aileron and flap hinges complete

  11. All holes dimpled (because I’m one of those crazy people going for a fully-flush-riveted aircraft)

Added after he received a few suggestions:

  • Root ribs riveted & bolted.

  • This is the RH wing only, so no wing-walk but yes the root doubler is drilled & dimpled (and that section of the skin is marked for no rivets until the wing can be rigged to the fuselage and the gap set properly)

  • Fwd root rib lightening holes combined into one

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