Cracking on with the Port wing now.
I had my inspector (Rex) round this week and he seemed pleased with my work so far.
To secure the bearings in the aileron bell cranks you need to use a centre punch which pushes out a little metal over the edge of the bearings. The distance from the edge is 1mm. I used a fine point punch first by hand to make a small dent in the right place. Then I switched to the medium size punch.
The next pic shows me just playing around with how the crank works - it will of course be on the inside of the wing when in place. I was just doing this to determine which crank goes in which wing.
Other work done this week: Fuel drain has been glassed over, flap counterweight arms are bonded in place and I have prepared the leading edge of the port wing for reinforcing - removed the peel ply, sanded down and flocked in any voids.
Finally there is a carbon washer that needs to be bonded onto the rear wing pin. The pin was put in place at the factory with their foam glue - which looks like it will be easy to remove but it is very strong and even the Dremel had a job to remove it. Got there in the end.
Just got to reinforce the root rib with glass, ditto the leading edge, then I will be close to finishing the Port wing. A few other little bits to do then I will switch back to the Starboard wing.
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| Centre punch around bearing to secure it. |
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| Trying out the bell crank for function |
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| Fuel drain glassed over |
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| Flap counterweights bonded in |
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| Leading edge prepped for reinforcing tape |
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| Foam needs to be removed for CF washer on rear wing pin |
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| Washer bonded in with Cotton Flock |
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| Other hole cut out for the bell crank now too |
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