Building log

08-Jan-2007
Small works
Catégorie: Wings : Final assembly

This afternoon, I first begun by drilling out some rivets on the outboard right wing aileron braket. The bracket was not sitting flush on the rear spar. But as the rib was under tension, the holes got elongated by quite a bit. The solution, already approved by Vans (what a technical support), is to rivet a doubler plate before reriveting everything



Then I used Mickey Coggins', a swiss RV-8 builder, method to build the aileron stop. Normally the stops are made from some aluminium angle and riveted onto the inboard aileron bracket. Mickey's solution is simple and elegant. One of the spacer is inserted in a Delrin rod and when installed will hit the bracket at the end of the aileron's up travel. There is no down travel stop, this role is taken by the opposite aileron up travel stop. The picture of one of the stops :



Here a view of the stop installed, in the background you can make out the bracket the stop will hit at the end of it's travel.



The I primed all the small parts for the roll servo, I installed everything into the right wing. I just have to check the washers needed before torqueing everything.




Working time on this subpart
Today :  4h (Total : 36h)

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