Wings

LH Bottom Skin  ( 3 hrs )

Finished dimpling LH Bottom Skin.  Primed just the rivet lines, since alclad was not "disturbed". Also primed the Pitot Mast Mount and brackets, and J-stiffener.

pic taken prior to priming along rivet lines

I installed the second 20' of 1/4" OD poly tubing for the AOA.  I ran a string along that line to assist later with installation of heater wires to the Pitot.   Per Mitch Lock (Van's East Coast rep), keeping those wires several inches away from the magnetometer and it's wires is important.










Finally ready to rivet the bottom skin.  Nancy assisted as we experimented with who should buck and who should hold the rivet gun ( I originally thought she'd only need to roll back the skin and hold it for me - but that option didn't work.  Clearly one of us needs to reach way inside to the rear spar, while other positions rivet gun.  We managed to get just 4 rivets done before we had to quit.   At least we got started!

checking how far we can roll back the skin w/o kinking...