Machined Rib Clips Today I finished installing the machined rib clips per section 291 of the manual. I started by drilling the hole for the side rivet in the top clip of the #12 rib. I marked the ...

Today I started installing the machined rib clips per section 291 of the manual. I did this in the same way that I did on the right wing except for the fact that the false spars were not yet instal...

Craig came by again today to help me finish the rear spar reinforcement on the right wing. We started by pulling all of the rivets in the reinforcement including the countersunk rivet in hole #24. ...

Today was a quick day deburring the holes drilled for the rear spar reinforcement so that they would be ready for the rivets to be installed. Almost all of these holes were good and not in need of ...

Front Pulley Bracket Craig came back over today and we started by drilling out the rivet that failed to pull on the front pulley bracket. We cut a slot in the stem using the same jig we used for t...

Today Craig came by to try to help me install the pulley bracket on the top of the front spar per section 25 of the manual1. We were careful to try to line the bracket up very precisely before we s...

As I mentioned in the last trammeling entry, I wanted to double-check the right wing a bit more before applying Loctite to anything. When I did, I discovered that the outboard portions of the spars...

When I installed the jury strut fittings while my grandfather was here I did a couple things that I would not do again. The first of these thing is that I briefly passed a #30 drill bit through the...

My grandfather’s flight was this afternoon but we decided to give trammeling another shot in the morning before he had to leave. As I mentioned before, the problem we were having is that we could n...

Yet another productive day today. We installed all of the fuel tank straps (including the felt) and the drag wires. This included the notch in rib#8 for drag wire clearance. We also started trying ...