Joshua's RV-9A Project

Hit the ground running today and riveted on the flap brackets and associated angles.  Nothing major different than the left wing process; the only “problem” rivets are those three spar-angle rivets nearest to the top skin, but with added experience from yesterday, then came out passably.  One ugly “smiley” in that awful root-end rivet, but after yesterday’s lesson, I decided to leave it as-is.  After the brackets were in place, I riveted on the gap fairings, and the right wing is done.

Wrapping up, I vacuumed the aluminum shavings out of both wings, then went through them and spot-primed the scrapes and scuffs from the riveting process.  Torque-sealed the fuel tank bolts on the right wing (I had anready done the left wing while it was in the jig).  Bolted the bellcrank brackets in place on the right wing (the bottom bracket replaced by the Trutrak servo mounting bracket; I have left the top servo support bracket out for now, because with no servo, one end is loose in the air, and would be free to vibrate.)  Torqued and sealed the bellcrank bolts.

Spent some time at the end putting tools away, sweeping the shop, and re-organizing to fit two vehicles into the garage bays.

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