RV-9A Wing Construction Log

Saturday, June 12, 2004

Project visit... j-stringers... organization

Earlier in the week I received an email from Scott who lives up north of KC. He just ordered his RV-9 preview plans and wanted to see a project in progress. He came down around noon. Shortly after he arrived, Ray called and came on down as well. We yacked for an hour and then Scott and I riveted the j-stringer on the right wing. He drove a dozen or so rivets and then we switched so he could buck. (Although back-riveting isn't really bucking is it?) Ray followed along behind us and put in rivets where cleco's were. We couldn't have spent more than 15 min doing it. You could get a lot down with 3 guys in the shop!!

Since Scott was coming down, earlier in the morning I bought a couple of organizers to get all the fuselage parts organized and out of the bags. To date, I've only put rivets in trays and worked out of the bags for the rest. The fuse kit has so many more bags of parts, it was time to get serious. Took a good 3 hours or so to get everything out of the bag and into trays. Had to make another trip to get another organizer, I ran out of room in the first. My mom and her husband came to help do yardwork, so after the guys left, I helped them.

(Time: 15 min.)

- posted by Matthew @ 7:59 AM