Skipping around to section 23 – Aileron Actuation. I’m really starting to dig deep to find things to work on until I am able to prime parts. After clearing a section of my workbench, I being to work on the Aileron Actuation section. I skipped past the torque tube parts and push rods and look at Page 23-5.
I’m starting to sand and fit the pushrod ends into the WD-1014 assemblies. As these parts are powder coated, some of that coating needs to be sanded out of the inside of the part so the rod-ends will fit in.
Once sanded, you need to install the rod ends on the “short” side of two of the WD-1014 assemblies (AFT) and two on the “long” side of the other two assemblies (FWD). Match drill, (mark alignment), deburr and blind-rivet them together.
Next you then install the WD-1014C steel tubes into the FWD assemblies and drill holes for AN3 boltes. This is where I got ahead of myself and made a mistake. I ended up drilling one tube into the FWD assembly, and the other into the AFT assembly. I realize as soon as I finish drilling the holes. Oh well. This is not the end of the world and low on my mistake list.
I just need to mark everything so when I do go to drill the other side, I remember how everything aligns and I don’t drill the AFT to the other AFT piece. Oh well. Short video to show mistakes happen and you can recover from them.