24/02/2013 - More on the Roll bar....

Time to rivet this sucker up.  Solid rivets to the front of the roll bar and blind rivets to the rear.

All done

Wing Mating Step 1

I bought some 6" long 7/16" bolts  to use as temporary drift pins. These go in first before other 7/16" hardware store bolts are used. I cut off the threads and taped down the front of the bolt to help ease it into the fuselage. I also took a few mills off of the shank of the bolt.

Next up I started to measure out the necessary edge distances basically, you are using a 5/16" bolt which means you need 5/8" edge distance. This is super critical (as mentioned in the instructions) to nail. What you see pointed out is the approved area for the center of the drill bit to be.

The instructions for wing mating can be found here

http://vansaircraft.com/pdf/Wing_ Incidence.pdf

Big day coming up.....