Wings – Page 2 – Builder's Log

Right Wing: Top Skin Dual Riveting

A friend of mine, Natalie, came out to the hangar to help me with the right wing top skin riveting.

Finished dimpling the right wing top skins. Then it was time to dimple the top flange of the aft spar.

Not so great at logging and photographing this work, but slowly chipped away on the right wing top skin prep

Used my new adjustable height workbenches to transfer the left wing from the fixed-height workbenches to my wing cart. There’s

The top skin riveting is done! Finished up the top row/rear spar riveting, and the inboard-most rib with the nutplates.

Had a friend from work, Zack, come over for the 2-person-job of riveting the top skin. It went very well.

And that just refers to the metal work of course. Still need to install the stall detector to call the

A couple of final steps before final assembly: riveting nutplates onto the tank strip, and deburring the slot I cut

Had a couple of pieces still to prime (J-stiffener and tank strip), so did that. Then the instructions suggested if

Got the left leading edge skin all prepped. This included deburring all the holes plus deburring the edges. Then dimpling.