The building of a Vans RV-14: 20-BottomWingSkins

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2/15/17

All wing skins are riveted in place!

Another chapter ended, feels great.

There will be a video here tomorrow.

2/14/17

36 or 39 rivets left on the last wing skin

One more session with some assistance from my wife and the wing skins will be done :)

2/13/17

2/9/17

Started riveting the last wing skin tonight.

Feels great! The next joint session is planned for Saturday, i'll probably do some preparation tomorrow.

2/1/17

Left bottom wing skin is done

Done with the left wing skin. Realized that even if I stick with the plans, there are some nutplates to be riveted so still some rivets to do on the left wing.

22 rivets left on the left wing?

Unless I modify and use a hinge instead of screws for the wing tip attachment, the picture below might show the last 22 rivets to be done on the left wing, great session last night. :D

It is possible to do them alone but that would mean holding the rivet gun far out in my left hand... will probably get my wife to help with them this evening.

1/30/17

Pitot mast attachment

I had planned to (might later) post a little movie of this evenings session. For unknown reason the picture transfer to my PC is taking forever.

I riveted most of the remaining rivets on the skin and riveted the pitot mast attachment.

1/29/17

Had hoped to go flying in our Cozy classic and try out our new Garmin G5 that was recently installed in it. But the TAFs for both sat and sunday talked about clouds well below 1000feet and even freezing fog.

This afternoon I got a few hours while my wife took the kids and visited her sister.
The left outer skin is now more than 50% done :)

1/26/17

Outer bottom wing skin continues

Finally some real work on the kit again. I had high ambitions, that we would be able to rivet all off the wing skin rivets that I need assistance with but our hands got to tired it will be at least one more session.

Started with some quality checks on the previous riveting using my new LED equipped mirror.

Two of the old rivets and two of tonight's rivets needed to be redone.

12/6/16

Started on the bottom outer wing skins

11/23/16

Setting up for starting to rivet the outer bottom skins

Placed lots of rivets and taped them in place.

Had forgotten to dimple about 10 holes

11/21/16

Continued with riveting the nutplates on the right bottom out wing skin

11/20/16

Controller visit and started on the outer bottom wing skin

First my controller came over for a final view before it will be more difficult to look inside the wings. We also checked out our new toy, a Garmin G5 that will be put into our CozyIII. I might buy and use this great lite instrument as my primary EFIS in the RV14 until I can afford a G3X or similar.

On purpose, taken directly into the sun, this visible :)

Tonight I got rid of some blue plastic and riveted the nutplates on one bottom outer wing skin.

11/19/16

Bottom inner wing skins done

set the last few rivets and riveted all the nutplates. Cant think of any reason to not rivet the nutplates for the cover plates before attaching the skin to the wing so that will happen on the outer bottom skins.

11/12/16

Right inner bottom wing skin

Looks like my old Canon 60D has given up :( Another session last night, the lower inner right wings skin is almost in place.

11/10/16

Left bottom inner skin in place

Done two sessions lately, first I forgot the memory card, today the battery was dead. I have on picture from the phone:

Apart from nut plates and where the outer skin shares holes, the inner left bottom skin is done.

11/2/16

Bottom wing skin session 2

Continued with the inner bottom wing skins. Around 10 driven and maybe 50 placed and taped in preparation for riveting. I removed one Aileron rod as it would be almost impossibe to do all rivets with it in place.