Fitted right leading edge, Opened up the left tie down hole - 2.5 hours

Managed to cleco the right leading edge. This side seemed to be a bit more difficult to get the initial holes to line up. I ended up putting the first couple of clecos in the front, then swung the leading edge assembly around and put one cleco in the bottom side to suck the ribs nice and tight forward into the leading edge. Worked it slowly. Finally worked the clecos on the top side front to back, flipped it around to the bottom side, again front to back. I then placed it on the right wing. Very nice fit!!!



I took a short break...not sure if I really had the energy tonight to deal with the joint plate. So i decided to try to open up the left wing tie down hole. Again slow and easy was my approach. I worked exactly according to the plans and used a file to re-center the factory hole and open it up. Then I used a unibit. I was careful not to get the unibit too deep and cut into the tie-down bar.


At the end, I uncleco'd the leading edge to use the unibit on the final cut....just to scared that i will chew into the tie down bar. I'm pretty happy with how good it turned out. I think i'll open it up a tad more just so that there is some clearance for when paint is applied.