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This morning, my friend, Greg, came over and helped rivet on the bottom skins onto
the right wing. It went great and we got done in about 2 1/2 hours.
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Here's Greg standing next to a closed-up right wing.
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Afterward, we headed over to his house and leveled up the spars of his
Sportsman 2+2. My machinists' level came in quite handy.
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When I got home, I clecoed on one of the new aileron skins that Van's sent.
This time I put the steel bar in place and also the spar doubler plates.
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There was still a slight bulge. :-( I think I'm just gonna move forward with
the ailerons. Hopefully the riveting will flatten the bulge out somewhat.
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I match drilled the doubler plates. I also tried to be careful about which
holes get countersunk for the rib attach points and also the nutplate.
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Speaking of the nutplate, I checked the clearance with the rib installed. There
is basically no clearance at all, but it doesn't seem to interfere, either. Looks
like I don't need to file away any of this rib.
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Here are the two aileron attach brackets that I match drilled.
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