Monday, December 29, 2014

1.5 hr drilling and some riveting of aileron parts.

The 2 small holes on the rib and the nut plate have to be drilled out to fit a 3.2mm rivet (that is not mentioned in the instructions).  I used my chucking reamers (#31 and then the #30) to do the job.

EDIT: I think I was mistaken here.  There are smaller 2.4mm rivets for just this purpose.  I don't think there's an issue with using the larger rivets, but I would have appreciated a note in the instructions that there are smaller special rivets in the kit for this because it was the first time needing them and I wasn't aware of them (I suppose I should have been...).


Cleco'ing of aileron ribs.

Cleco'ing of flap ribs.

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