Right Wing

	5 Apr 03	Fit and drill the rear spar reinforcing plates for right rear spar.
	9 Apr 03	Here's the inboard root reinforcing plates beig trimmed. Many folks overlook this step and run into problems when the rings are fitted to the fuselage for the first time.
	13 Apr 03	Back to the priming thing again! Still using the PPG products...
	14 Apr 03	Riveting the reinforcing plates to the right rear spar. Not too much of an issue here. Just make sure you don't put rivets in any holes that need to remain open for future use.
	15 Apr 03	Riveted the spacers to the tie-down brackets.
	14 Mar 04	And away we go on the right wing. Fitting the ribs. Hummm, been here before....
	20 Mar 04	Over the last couple days, I was able to prep the ribs for paint and get them all primed. Then spent a couple hours and riveted all ribs to the spars (except the outboard rib). No drill-outs and things went fairly fast. Seems to be moving faster this time around...Also got the structure put back in the fixture.
	23 Mar 04	After getting the frame in the fixture, I was able to get the whole thing leveled again. Spent a little time aligning the spar using one of those laser alignment levels. Pretty cool tool. Over about 10 feet, the beam was only 3/32 wide. Then the whole thing was leveled side to side, and end to end.
	25 Mar 04	Hung the skins and started drilling. After hanging skins, the support fell out. So much for the tedious process of getting the spar straight. By the time you get the skins cleco'd on, they're going to be straight. The support just assists while installing skins.
	28 Mar 04	Got a long day, or at least a long day to me (4.75 hours). Finished drilling both top and bottom skins. Then fitted ribs to LE skin and fitted the whole thing to the spar. Sure brought back memories of what a PINA the splice plate was to get right!
	4 Apr 04	Can't see all the details but did get a couple things done today. De-vinyled the lower inboard skin. Drilled the inspection covers to size ( #28 & #19s). Also decided to get a little ahead of the game and trim the flap brace, and match drill both the aileron and flap braces, as seen in this really bad picture.
	11 Apr 04	Man! I hate when this happens. Had the whole thing cleco'd together. Then match drilled the works (including LE and tank). Next step was to take everything apart and start that deburr-dimple stuff!  IN the mean time, I've been able to drill the tank and Z-brackets.
	2 May 04	Contrary to this web site, I have been making some progress. It's just not real interesting to see thousands of holes being de-burred and dimpled. There's a whole lot of holes in this wing but I'm through the worst part. All wing components, except the hinge brackets, have been de-burred, dimpled, prepped and primed, including all skins. This wing is now ready to start going back together for good.
	4 May 04	After getting all the parts primed, here's the LE all cleco'd together.
	5 May 04	Took a couple minutes and riveted the nutplates to the splice plate. The splice plate's riveted the inboard rib. The inboard rib's .....well, you get the idea...You might notice more than the required number of nutplates on the top surface. On the left wing, I doubled the number of nutplates to get rid of a little pillowing of the tank skin. Sooo, I had to do the same here.
	9 May 04	Ta-daaa. One right side leading edge ready for install.
	10 May 04	All installed! Good to see visual progress.
	16 May 04	Local RV-6 builder Ed Cole came over and helped start the skinning. We first drove some of those nasty rib-to-spar rivets for the leading edge, then started to back-rivet the upper skin on. I'm using the new double-offset, extended, back-rivet set from Avery Tools. Very cool, works great, less filling.
	19 Jun 04	I've been trying to get the tank done so not much has happened on the wing, until now. Paul Eastham, local RV-9 builder helped do the honors of back riveting the rest of the top skins. Took about 2 hours to finish all but the lower line of rivets along the rear spar.
	20 Jun  04	Took some quality Father's Day time and riveted the row of rivets along the rear spar. Top skin all done!
		Had some spare time left so I fitted, drilled, and finished edges on the aileron hinge brackets. Getting close to finishing this wing.
	26 Jun  04	Here's flap and aileron braces riveted in place. Almost ready to start riveting the skins.
		Also finished installing all the screws for the right tank. I think this came out OK.
	30 Jun  04	Aileron bellcrank went in today. Complete with torques.
	3 July  04	Right wing is now wired. I choose to just run the wiring through gromets.  Works well and I've taken into consideration wing tip antennas. The RG400 run here is for the marker beacon. I've also run a second RG400 cable through the aft tooling hole for the VOP/GS receiver. The other large cable is for the strobes.
	11 July  04	Here's the status of the lower skin. The inboard skin is pretty much done. I have about eight rivets left along the forward spar but that's about it. Local RV-9 builder Paul Eastham leant his riveting services to assist in riveting the three inboard ribs. One big skin, an aileron, and a flap to go.
	17 July  04	Spent about two hours on the outboard skin and made a lot of progress. I figure another hour or so to go on the lower skin. I've been doing the riveting by myself and it's been working out well except for the nasty bruises on the inside of my upper arms where I stick my arms through the access holes. The basic procedure for a given bay, is to peel away the top (forward) edge of the skin from the outboard edge. If your lucky and your arms are long enough, you can reach down and rivet along the rear spar (inboard to outbaord). From there, rivet up the rib from rear spar forward. Reach in from next bay outboard and rivet along forward spar.
	18 July  04	Pretty much down to this end bay and about eight on the root. There's about 1/2 hour of riveting on these skins left. Woooo-whoooo! Then access panel nutplates, mount aileron, then mount flap.
	22 July  04	Spent a couple evenings getting the aileron temp mounted in the right place, then alligned, fitted, drilled, de-burred, and riveted the flap hinge. The attached flap. Worked out well from what I can tell.
	24 July  04	Took only about an hour to finish this off. Installed the access panels, and riveted the final bay at the tip end. There were about 8 rivets along the spar at the root. A neighbor came over and we took it out of the stand, flipped and turned it then put the finished wing in the rack. Time for this wing, minus the tank was 82.5 hours. This went a lot faster this time around.