The building of a Vans RV-14: wing spar

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5/14/15

Rear spars riveted and top skins positioned for some match drilling

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

5/12/15

First wing skins

Reamed the rear spar attachment holes and then trial fitted the left wing skins (with wing walk doublers under)

5/11/15

Lots of rivets on the rear wing spar

I say it again: I love my pneumatic squeezer!

5/10/15

Preparing to start riveting on the rear spars

A short session, cleco the parts together and marking the holes not to be riveted with tape.

5/9/15

Used sockets to press the bearings into the hinge brackets as described in the manual. I successfully used 11mm and 15mm (the manual suggest 14mm but that would demand a very precise placement)

Finished with riveting the bracket assemblies together.

5/8/15

Wing rear spars, priming complete

About as long to clean up as to prime...

5/7/15

First side primed

One side of the rear wing spars and additional parts are primed.

5/5/15

Lots of deburring

My controller visited tonight, got lots done, almost ready for priming, started with dimpling the rear spars but I did not have the memory card available during that time.

5/4/15

Match drilling and countersinking the wing rear spar and reinforcements

Match drilling and countersinking the wing rear spar and reinforcements.

4/19/15

Started on the back spars

Nothing done tonight, this is from friday's session, I was to tired to blog then.

Finding the parts

Preparing the parts

Aileron hinges sub assemblies put together and match drilled. All or most parts layed out

4/16/15

Ribs on spars, done!

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

Ribs on Spars

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.

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.