Van's RV-9A in Aurora

The Big Picture

The Big Picture
Flying! 8/28/2011

Sunday, April 26, 2009

4.3 hrs, 108 rivets
Riveted left aileron skin to spar and ribs.



Scuffed aileron trailing edge skins and wedges with sandpaper.
Cleaned up the scuffed parts with MEK.
Then mixed up a batch of proseal. Spread a thin layer on the wedges, put them into the trailing edges, weighted the ailerons down, and clecoed them to the table using the same holes drilled when drilling the wedges. Now to let them sit for a few days. Covered the table with wax paper, so it shouldn't be to hard to get the ailerons off the table and cleaned up.




While the proseal was fresh, used laquer thinner to thin some out a bit.

Used a thin piece of plastic to shove the thinned proseal into the flange on the leaking right tank. Then reset the 4 rivets that were drilled out. I will be able to run the leak check tomorrow.