Lindy
3/23/2006
Tonight was a good night because I got to see for real, the picture from so many websites, of the wing ribs on the spars. I think I added a step that most others probably don't do, but I did it to clarify myself. I started by organizing the ribs into stacks of similar part numbers, and then I cleco'd all the ribs to the spars. This is the extra step, because I was unsure of which side of the ribs were the top of the wing. The left wing went together great...the right wing had me very confused. I bet I stood there starring at it for 20 minutes while I figured out that I had the ribs mis-marked, and they were on backwards. Simple mistake, it just took me a while to get it. I also made the angle that will support the outboard tip on the stands. I think I will replace this with some thicker angle, but it works for now.
Doesn't that look cool! It only lasted for a short while, while I marked the orientation of the ribs to the spars. I numbered the ribs all the way to #24, and marked the direction the flange faces...
...then it was gone.
With that out of the way, I made a template to mark where the pilot hole will be drilled for opening up the wiring conduit holes. I just used a scrap piece of AL and marked it with an arrow. The edge of the AL was lined up with the ridge and the flange, and the arrow meets the lightening hole. I marked the hole for punching, and drilled the pilot holes to #30 on all the ribs.
A good nights work!
3.0 hours