| I'm finally back in the saddle again following my medical 'surprise'. i didn't expect it to take me this long to get back into the build, |
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| but the time 'off' was good and I got caught up on a lot of things that I'd let slip. My Sis and her husband came over from SoCal |
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| this weekend, and I took advantage of Dave's being here to help me get the left wing fit. i helped Dave McNeil fit his wings and |
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| we had 5 guys to do it. I was hesitant to try with only the 2 of us, but i've had a hard time trying to round up several people at the |
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| same time to help. I set up some saw horses, and we moved the left wing from the cradle to the saw horses, I used some |
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| furniture blankets to cushion and 'raise' the level. I had to cut some 2x4"s and duct tape them to one of the saw horses to get it |
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| to the right height. Once we got it close, we just slipped the spars into place. I put one of the 'drift pins' into the top inboard hole |
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| and then we adjusted the outboard sawhorse w/ Dave's help to get the right alignment for the lower outboard drift pin. and Viola! |
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| Wing attached!. Used a cleco to center the rear spar, clamped it and then progressively drilled it to 5/16" and tehn used a |
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| reamer to get it to the final 3/8". Clecoes in the bottom and top fairings. Took several test fits to get the inboard edge of the |
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| fairings so they would fit with a slight (1/64") gap between them and the fuse side skins. Match drilled them to the fairing support |
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| brackets. Then disassembled it all, dimpled the fairings and put the left wing back in the cradle. I can finish up the rest of the |
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| items with the wing detached. |
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