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RV10 Build Project

Ailerons – Part 2

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The stars aligned. Between the weather and my schedule I was finally able to get a few parts primed the other day.

With that said, I jumped back to working on my ailerons. I being to assemble the Inboard and Outboard hinge brackets and realize I need to find the MS21055-L3 nutplate. This is a corner nut-plate and you only have 2 of them. Did I ever mention you need to have your parts organized? Honestly I thought I did a good job of this, but still took me way longer than it should have to find these nutplates.

Once located, I rivet the hings brackets together and then can try to final drill the counterbalance. The drawings mention that you may have to use a screwdriver bit using a pair of pliers. I actually try to do this only to get frustrated. Finally have a lightbulb moment and realize I can just uncleco the hinge brackets from the spar to tighten these screws. SO much easier!.

Flip that aileron over, install the nose skin, and match drill the holes into the counterbalance. I then go to the other Aileron where I hadn’t drilled any holes in the counterbalance yet, and I begin to get that counterbalance drilled and marked for where it attaches to the hinge brackets. Ran out of “free time” and had to put it away.

Aileron Actuation – Part 1

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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.

Bottom Wing Skin – Part 3

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With both wing skins match drilled, I begin to prep the skins for priming. First I remove enough clecos so I can remove the blue film on the skin where the skins overlap. This will allow me to mark and mask off the skin to prep them to sand.

I wasn’t very aggressive on the top skins, however I’m interesting in trying to make this overlap section a little nicer on the bottom. Granted nobody but me will really be looking at the bottom of my wings, but I guess it’s just a challenge for me.

With the film removed and the overlap marked in sharpie, I then remove both skins and coil up the larger skin to get it out of my way. I then can begin to file and deburr the smaller skin just in case I have enough time to prime it before my fuselage arrives.

Bottom Wing Skins – Part 1

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With the weather and my schedule continuing to prevent me from getting any parts primed, I continue to move forward with other items on my build. I had no intention of attaching my bottom wing skins until just before I was ready to attach the wings to the fuselage, however there is no reason why I can’t get the skins prepped.

Starting off I locate the J-stiffeners that I pre-drilled last year and the bottom wing skins. As I attempt to install the wing skins, I noticed that the skins needed to be filed a bit to fit around the hinge brackets. Just a little filing and the skins fit easily over the brackets.

I then start to cleco everything together and had a moment of panic when I saw that my J-stiffeners were not drilled in a few locations. Took me a few moments to realize that this was correct based on where the access panels are. (They were match drilled based on the spars). I final-drilled and match drilled all the holes on the left wing.

I also started to get some wires for both my pitot and wingtip lights. I started to pull them through my access holes and so far am leaving my conduit empty for future use. Also am using my label maker to print heat-shrink labels for every wire.

Still to do: Mount the Pitot tube mast and Pitot controller box. Currently I am planning to mount in the same place indicated int he plans by vans. Just trying to figure out if I need to twist / run a ground wire back to the wing root or ground the pitot locally.