Month: May 2016

Catch-up on Wing Progress

Over the last few weeks, I’ve completed a number of steps and logged in my paper log, but haven’t really updated the progress here.

So, in the interest of completeness, and while some primer dries, here’s an update.

4/23/2016

RHS Main spar countersinking–finished the rib/skin attach countersinks; need to complete nutplate holes.
3 hours.

4/26/2016

Received confirmation that J stiffeners can be extended with no negative (from Van’s Aircraft). Misalignment of spars and J channels required either re-making the channels or extending them.
Made Four J-Stiffener extensions approximately 9-1/8″ long each. This allows overlap of 3 rivets in the splice joint.
0.5 hour

4/27/2016

LH Spar bottom countersink complete. Top remains.
1.5 hours

4/30/2016

Machine countersank all lower fuel tank attach screw holes after installing the nutplates on the LH main spar
5 hours.

5/11/2016

Countersank RH main spar top tank attach screw holes
1 hour.

5/14/2016

“Completed Page 13-3 – Finished RH and LH main spar countersinks, installed inspection plate nutplates and countersank.
Spot primed. Widened hole in LH Spar–all per plans. Also primed spar web extensions and doublers.
5 hours

5/15/2016

“Completed page 13-2 step 4 – Web extension riveting, both wings.
Page 13-4, steps 1,2,3,4,5,7 completed L&R. 8&9 completed RH only.”
7 hours.

Total hours to date: 85.75

RV-10 SB 16-03-28 Kit

Yesterday I received the kit for the Van’s Service Bulletin 16-03-28. I had placed an order as soon as the kit became available. It was delivered in only a few days. Van’s charged $25.00, which they said is their production cost, plus shipping.

The kit is for both the RV-10 and RV-14, came in a padded envelope, and includes the following:

SB-16-03-28 Contents
SB-16-03-28 Contents
SB-16-03-28 Unpacked
SB-16-03-28 Unpacked

1. Paper copy of the Service Bulletin
2. W-00007CD (to be separated into parts)
3. A piece of pre-drilled angle (part number printed on a label but I forgot what it was) to be cut into parts.
4. W-1013D-R
5. W-1013D-L
6. W-1013E-R
7. W-1013E-L
8. Bag 2751 containing AN470AD4-7 Rivets
9. Bag 1320
10. Bag 1978 containing AN470AD4-5 Rivets
11. Bag 1166 containing AN470AD4-11 Rivets
12. Bag 2412 containing AN426AD4-7 Rivets
13. Bag 1121

There are no specific instructions for installing these parts as an initial construction–the instructions focus on retrofit of completed wings. It should be relatively straightforward, however. The flat parts appear to be thicker and “beefier” replacements for existing aileron bracket parts. In addition, instead of a sandwich of three parts making up the bracket, there are only two parts per bracket, with increased thickness.

There are two bracket pieces that are to be separated into multiple parts and installed on the forward and aft sides of the rear wing spar to provide additional resistance to flexing in the spar web.