Beginning skins
Hours: 1.7 | Posted in Skin PanelsStarted the skinning process by clecoing a fishing line to the spar, pulled tightly to show proper alignment of the row of rivet holes. I used a temporary bottle-jack-on-drywall-mud-pail system to raise the sag out, as I forgot to pick up anything to make a more permanent center stand with.
The first step to skinning the wings is to drill the wing walk doublers to the top skins on the bench. The instructions have you drill just three holes per rib, and then drill the rest on the wing. Labelled the parts as they were drilled for left/right and orientation, then proceeded to cleco those pieces to the left skeleton. The structure, which is rather wiggly with just the spars & ribs, really stiffens up with the skins attached. Attached the outboard skins as well, then moved the jack assembly to the right wing and attached the skins there as well before calling it a night.
Passed 200 hours today.
