Category: Wings

-Deburred ribs, baffle & stiffeners -Marked drill holes for capacitive fuel sensor plug & fuel vent line in inboard rib -Cut and straightened fuel vent line -Cut capacitive fuel sensor wires to length -Soldiered fuel sensor short wire to bulkhead…

-Drilled Capacitive fuel plate to OB rib #20 -Opened rib holes up to 1/4″ -Trimmed stiffeners & plate to give required clearance -Drilled Capacitive fuel plate to IB rib #20 -Opened rib holes up to 1/4″ -Riveted nutplates to Capacitive…

-Drilled fuel tank assembly -Drilled Fuel pickup holes to 411 panel -Cut out 711 stiffeners which I hadn’t done previously -Tidied up stiffeners -Drilled Stiffeners to to skin -Countersunk Fuel Tank skin only on baffle row of ribs -Drilled spar…

-AFTER CONSULTATION WITH THE SHEETMETAL GUYS AT WORK I DECIDED RATHER THAN CUT THE 703 FUEL TANK RIB ACCESS HOLE WITH A FLY CUTTER I’D JUST CHAIN DRILL AND CUT OUT. -SO I CHAIN DRILLED AND CUT OUT THE 703…

-BOLTED LAST Z BRACKET TO SPAR -STRAPPED FUEL TANK ASSY TO WING -DRILLED JOINT PLATE TO #19 -DRILLED INBOARD RIB TO Z BRACKET -REMOVED OUTBOARD LEADING EDGE -DRILLED OUTBOARD RIB TO Z BRACKET -REMOVED SKIN AND INTERIOR RIBS OF FUEL…

-BOLTED 3 ATTACH “Z” BRACKETS TO SPAR – NOT ROOT BRACKET AS I NEED A VERY THIN WALLED SOCKET TO DO UP BOLTS. -CLECOS ARRIVED SO CLECOED FUEL TANK TOGETHER FULLY Manual Reference: RIVETS – INST 0 – REM 0…

-RIVETED 2 OF THE FUEL TANK ROOT NUTPLATES TO THE MAIN SPAR –COULDN’T GET ACCESS FOR THE LAST NUTPLATE SO DECIDED TO POP RIVET THE LAST ONE ON -BOLTED 3 OF THE Z BRACKETS TO THE SPAR Manual Reference: RIVETS…

AFTER HAVING ISSUES WITH ATTACHING THE FUEL TANK “Z” BRACKETS TO THE SPAR I DECIDED TO FOLLOW THE RECOMMENDED “CHECKOWAY” OR “ALTERNATIVE” METHOD, I SCRAPPED MY OLD Z BRACKETS ORDERED MORE AND STARTED. -STARTED BY ASSEMBLING THE FUEL TANK ASSY…

-DRILLED 1/8″ HOLE IN ALL 712 ANGLES -TRIED TO BOLT ANGLES TO THE SPAR BUT HAD SOME ISSUES WITH THE PLATENUTS LINING UP SO DECIDED TO CALL IT AND HAVE A BEER Manual Reference: 7-5 RIVETS – INST 0 –…