Wings Spar stuff pics (as promised!)
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:48 pm
The horizontal was hung from the ceiling with care:
With hopes that the wings soon would be there!
Actually, they are here... I just need to put them together!
There are lots of methods people conjure up for doing these platenuts precisely.
I drilled ONE of the platenut holes first, cleco'ed a nutplate on as a guide for the second hole and then countersunk, deburred and riveted them into place.
Wyatt kept a close watch during the entire process!
The tank platenuts are all installed now. Next is countersinking the #8 screwholes with the #30 countersink bit. As you can see, the #30 countersink will "automatically" center itself into the well of the #8 platenut, once it is riveted into place.
Lemme tell ya, there is a lotta work here!
It came out pretty good, I would say!
CJ
With hopes that the wings soon would be there!
Actually, they are here... I just need to put them together!
There are lots of methods people conjure up for doing these platenuts precisely.
I drilled ONE of the platenut holes first, cleco'ed a nutplate on as a guide for the second hole and then countersunk, deburred and riveted them into place.
Wyatt kept a close watch during the entire process!
The tank platenuts are all installed now. Next is countersinking the #8 screwholes with the #30 countersink bit. As you can see, the #30 countersink will "automatically" center itself into the well of the #8 platenut, once it is riveted into place.
Lemme tell ya, there is a lotta work here!
It came out pretty good, I would say!
CJ
CJ
I ain't got no Quickbuild. I am on the world's slowest build RV-6A. Except for the second rudder and vertical stab I built from RV-7 (smaller one) parts I ain't got a single pre-punch part. 
CJ