Today was a bunch more work on the rear spars. Van's sure has some weird sequences for their direction. Or they assume that you aren't paying all that much attention to them anyways. They like to tell you to do so much, then deburr, dimple, prime. But if you look carefully there is more to drill, dimple, and countersink. So you end up messing up your beautiful (and time consuming, not fun) primer. So I'm skipping around a bit in the instruction already and trying to bo mostly by the drawings (which is, what I believe, Van's expects). I attached the flap braces and aileron gap fairing and drill those. I did most of the deburring on them as well. Mostly what's left on the whole rear spar assembly is hole deburring (maybe 30% left) and dimpling. Then I'll be ready to prime when there are no holes left to be drilled! But what that really means is that the whole rear section of the wing will have to be clecoed together so I can match drill the skins to the ribs and spars. Anyways, here's the stuff in the midst of working on it all.
Here's another don't-follow-the-instructions area. This is the outboard double I mentioned yesterday. I've decided to do a 'triple dimple' here. That is, dimple the doubler, spar, and rib. I posted a question on the VAF forum about these kinds of things, so we'll see what people have to say.
Here are the spars waiting to get clecoed onto the rest of the wing structure.. We'll have to see how much I can (or want to) assemble before doing all the priming and riveting..
After finishing up (mostly) with the rear spars, I cleaned everything up. I will soon begin on everyone's favorite part of building the wings (not). Preparing the ribs... I can't wait!
