I worked on finishing the flap false spar today. I measured the false rib and determined that it is off center by 1/16” and the distance between the spars is 30 3/8”. This means that is is off by a...

False Rib Before starting the flap false spar, I realized that the false rib Craig and I installed earlier had a bit of a twist in it and that it was therefore not quite flat compared to the botto...

Today I made all 4 wiring harnesses for the wingtip lights (a set of 2 for me and a set of 2 for Craig). These were made in a very similar way to the landing light harnesses except for the fact tha...

Rivet Replacement I started today where I left off the previous time, trying to remove the top rivet from rib #7. The first thing I did was drill out the remaining 3 stainless steel rivets (one in...

I worked on removing the bad rivet from the previous build session today. Unfortunately, I was unable to use an angle drill to remove the rivet since the rib is in the way (doesn’t provide enough c...

Craig came by today to help me with the last couple things I needed to do in the center section of the wing before moving on to the false spars. The first item on the list was the top, rear rivet i...

I just got back from 2 weeks away to Airventure and then another vacation so I was ready to get back to work. Getting to see some finished Carbon Cubs at Airventure, and even fly in one, was great ...

My friend RJ came by today and we worked on the wiring harnesses a bit. Using the new heat gun, we were able to get the solder in the test solder sleeve from two days ago to flow, although it took ...

Since I couldn’t work on the false spars yet, I decided to go ahead and finish a few outstanding tasks on the right wing and then start looking at the wiring harnesses. I began by drilling the fina...

Today I started trying to install the flap false spar per section 371 of the manual; however, when I pulled it out of storage I discovered that it had come with a bent corner that I hadn’t noticed ...