See the edge distance on the hole at the far right? That's what I got by following the directions. Decided to try my own method instead.
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Here's the part I made (after three trys). I think I have much better edge distance than the part where I followed directions.
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Jig used to bend stiffners and drill to nose ribs.
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Drilling stiffner to nose rib. The stiffner is under the rib.
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Fabricating a nose rib skin stiffner. Here I used a center punch to locate releif holes that I drilled out.
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Cutting out slots in the nose rib skin stiffner. Here's where the releif holes come in.
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Deburring.
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Here I have the nose ribs and wing ribs from both wings - but just the ribs that have flap or slat brackets. Each has been located at the factory. I'm drilling out everything to size (#20).
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Rear spars from both wings. Each spar consists of two pieces joined with a splice plate. Note the cafecito in the foreground.
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Ben getting the spar lined up on the table.
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My lightening holes are facing forward, not backward like the manual shows (or like what I saw on other builders' sites). So I had to be a little creative on how the spar was clamped to the 90 degree jigs.
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90 degree jigs.
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Got the nose ribs located. The wing is upside down (top is on the table).
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Working on the wing ribs.
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Used a short extrusion to line up the bottom of the rib to the bottom of the spar.
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Wing ribs located.
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Drilled everything to size (#20). I did the final drilling with both nose and wing ribs clecoed.
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Rear spar clamped in place.
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This is the trailing edge of the root rib. I cut off the flange I'm pointing at and replaced it with a Std L so that I could modify the length of this rib.
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Bottom I/B skin located flush with the front edgr of the spar.
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Drilling the O/B bottom skin.
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Overlap between the I/B (right) and O/B skins. The final wing will have the OB skin on top of the IB (opposite of what is shown).
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The overhang will get trimmed later on. Remember the wing is upside down so the skin you see is the bottom skin.
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Root rib rivet line.
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Trailing edge of the root rib modified with the Std L.
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Located the nose skin.
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Bottom nose skin is on too.
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Making a cut out for the main strut attach bracket.
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Doubler for the main strut brace. This doubler goes through rib station 4.
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Doubler.
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Little creative rivet locating.
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Getting ready to clean / prime.
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HVLP gun from Harbor Freight.
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After priming, the wing gets re-assembled on the table upside down like it was before.
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Here the skeleton is all riveted and I'm putting the bottom skins in place.
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Riveting. This goes pretty fast once eveything is in place.
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Carmen and I took the wing out of the garage to flip it over so we can work on the top side.
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Here's the wing with the bottom side on the table.
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Here, I'm getting ready to locate the top I/B skin. Havine already done the bottom, this felt pretty easy.
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