Tag: Wing Ribs

I got all of the inboard rib work done today this Labor day. I also clecoed all of the ribs to the spar so I can match drill them tomorrow. I built the wing holder which i will modify later to have the carpet on it when the wings are completed. For now the sawhorses were getting in the way so I needed to have this to put the ribs on. I will say…. The blocking that they had for this craddle at the end with the carpet is going to be in the way. The wing won’t sit level in the cradle the height it is at on the inboard side of the wing. I might end up laying that up a few stacks high of 2×4’s to get it to be level with the carpet. I also had an issue; there were two sets of 1010 inboard ribs. One looked like it was laser but but it felt like it was thicker material but I verified that it wasn’t with a micrometer. It almost looks the same except there are sections where there are relief cuts along the flange on the part that I knew was made through the normal press cut way. I went with that one and set these aside for now. I should have kept the list of parts I replaced. I might still have it in my email and I’ll have to double check.

I finally got through all of the ribs today. Had some sore fingers trying to adjust the ribs but it all came out good!

More time spent working on the ribs. I didn’t get as much time this week as I am working on getting my son back up and driving again. Luckily the wreck didn’t hurt them, but the car is totaled. A friend of mine found a similar Civic which has a bad transmission or engine (or both) which I can use the existing Civic to repair that one and get back to a fully functional car. I’m going to pick it up next week after the holiday and then do some diagnostics on it and swap the transmission or engine or both to get it going.

I was only able to get a few ribs fluted tonight and straightened with the 30 minutes I had tonight after doing my preassessment exam for my accounting class for my MBA. These were way better than my horizontal stabilizer ribs. I only had to make a few corrections so far and the flutes aren’t super deep. Only a bunch more to go lol.