Saturday, July 19, 2008

Ribs, ribs and more ribs (plus some assembly)

Today was almost all about deburring, cleaning, straightening and fluting all the ribs for both wings and both fuel tanks.  It was an incredible amount of work but with both of us working, we had it done after about 5 hours.  We then assembled and match drilled the ribs to the main and rear spars.


Pieces laid out.


The new die grinder to make deburring the wing ribs a little easier.


 Darren using the new die grinder on the ribs.


 Scott using the bench grinder to debur the edges.



 Things are looking ready for some assembly.


Hmmm.. That spar flange doesn't look quite right.... It should be a little more flush than that.... More on that later.

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