Wing rib prep 11

Well hallelujah, ribs are deburred!!!

I can now scrub and prime them and get these things assembled!

Wing rib prep - 10

After getting over the shock of Van’s filing bankruptcy and dealing with winter depression.   I am now back to working on these wing ribs!

More deburring, edge prep and soon to be scrubbing and priming.

This is the hardest part of building!

Wing rib prep, wings part 9

Since it appears that I have no reason to hurry while I wait on my finish kit, I have been working on these wings a little at a time.

For days I have been doing a little processing of the wing ribs a little at a time.

I have fluted them all.

I have trimmed them all per the plans.

I have deburred the trimmed edges.

I have deburred all the lightening holes.

Sill have to deburr all the rivet and misc holes and then debur the flanges.

Finally they will all have to be scrubbed and primed.

Since there are 56 ribs in total, this is a ton of repetitive, brain numbing work that just has to get done.

I won't bore you with this process, I will just let you know when it is done!  Until then, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Wings part #8

Started the task of prepping all the wing ribs today.

Fluted all the fwd ribs.

Marked some of the FWD ribs for removing the built in mount flange.  Why they put them there just to have you cut them off will remain a mystery.

Goodbye mount flanges.

For the inboard ribs that connect to the front stub spar, they have you remove these front most flanges.

Cut these hinge mount ribs appart.

Fluted all the aft ribs.

And for some they have you cut the mount flange off.

Then I spent about two hours pulling all the blue film off the ribs!

Wings part #7

Wing spar assembly....

Riveted the inboard hinge brackets together.  The KAI's say to put the rivets in random.  I did not and they turned out fine.

Tip attach angles get riveted to the aft spars.

Aft spar doublers  get riveted.  Pay attention to which ones to leave out and what type of rivet goes where!

These get riveted on with solid rivets.  On the inboard side only for now!

Wings Part #6!

Primed all of the spar and hinge parts of the wing.

Wings part #5!

Prepping the wing structure for priming.

Should be able to get these primed after work tomorrow.  It is getting harder to have good weather for priming,  

On top of all of this Van's filled chapter 11 and we are trying to determine what our path forward is.  More to come here!