The building of a Vans RV-14: Wing ribs

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5/13/15

Started riveting the rear spars to the ribs

There will be at least one rivet that I cannot drive with the squeezer

4/16/15

4/13/15

An hour off fixing

Almost exactly one hour to remove yesterdays bad rivets and redo them properly.

4/12/15

Ribs riveted on spars

I have some to drill out but all in all it was a good session with lots of rivets driven.

4/11/15

Most of the ribs are now attached to the spars. During the day I spent an hour cleaning the garage and putting up some more shelves.

Then I clecoed the ribs to the spars, attached the bolts and nuts and torqued them as described in chapter 5. I used 4.7Nm.

4/10/15

Ribs, the never ending story ;)

All flap hinges are in place and the attachments for the inner ribs as well.

Started with drilling out two bad ones from yesterday

Lägg till bildtext

Clamps are great to keep parts attached

4/9/15

Riveting

Two sessions today. Unfortunately I did not have the camera pointed in the right direction most of the time.

touched up on the primer

one flap hinge riveted

4/8/15

And priming is done for at least a short while

Looking forward to finally rivet again!

4/7/15

One side of the right ribs primed

No pics...

4/6/15

Started on the right side ribs

Left side ribs done, started going over the right side ones with red scotch brite.

4/5/15

Other side of the left ribs primed

No pics...

4/4/15

Left ribs primed on one side

4/3/15

Almost an hours work tonight

All left wing ribs are prepared and laid out for priming.

3/31/15

System holes in the ribs are done

Some deburring and scuffing before priming and the ribs will be ready. I have some other parts to prepare before the next priming session. Looking forward to putting pieces together again!

3/30/15

And more work on the ribs

Feels like it has been forever... but I am seeing the end of the tunnel. Got my missing rib from Vans today and got it to the same state as the others in no time. Had I possessed a 7/16 drill, I would have done everything to be ready for primer after todays work.

removing clecos

match drilling

rib from Vans

Color marking the different hole sizes and positions

made all holes 8mm to start with

1/2 inch

the only 3/8 I have is a reemer, great holes

deburring

3/29/15

Match drilling ribs to spars

Did all the #12 and #30 holes and half of the #40 ones. Takes more time to reposition clecos than it takes to drill.

Supporting the ribs with a wooden block when drilling the #12 holes

3/27/15

Another short session tonight

Another short session tonight, just made sure that the correct ribs are in the correct position on the spars

3/26/15

Back at it

Back in the shop. Feels great even if it was for only 30 minutes. I match drilled the flaps hinges for the right wing.

3/14/15

Ribs on spars

Removed the bolts, fitted the ribs on the spars in preparation for match drilling.

I miss one rib, will order from Vans. I do not understand how I missed this during inventory. When I look at older pictures I can se that I never had the correct amount of W1011R.

3/10/15

More dimpling and some match drilling

And finally I have done something else than preparing the ribs.