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.