Sunday, July 10, 2016

Fitting the flap hinge - 2 hours

Fitting the hinge on the flap is fairly easy. After some time looking for the hinges that I tucked away 8 months ago, I finally found them and drug them out.
I used an edge marking tool to measure in 1/4" on each side as noted on the plans.

Next I clamped the hinge onto the flap assembly and checked that the line match up through the holes. After double checking that my hinge alignment was consistent with what is shown on the plans. I began to drill and cleco, re-checking alignment as I worked from the center to the ends.






Here is where my alignment ended up on the outboard rib.




and the other flap
 
 Well...Enough for the weekend. I am airplane'd out.
 




Debur and dimple the skins - 4 hours

A majority of the skin prep time was spend yesterday. Today I just needed to debur and to dimple. Takes some time, but in the end it is straight forward. The deburing when quick, then it was a matter of dimpling. Of course the smaller inboard skins can be done solo, but the longer outboard skins required an extra hand.

I temporary cleco'd them on the wing to get them out of the way.

I was sure not to dimple the spots that are to be drilled in the future for the wing root fairing.

But all in all, it looked great.