16 - Top Wing Skins (right side riveting started); 17 - Outboard Leading Edge (right side, riveted top skin-to-ribs); 21 - Flaps (Finished right flap)

It is amazing how a major deadline (pending fuselage kit delivery in a few weeks!) can help me focus and knock out tasks on multiple projects.  Lots of small but important tasks were accomplished this past week, in just about every available minute.  The kids and wife saw very little of me, because I completed the following:

- countersunk holes in right rear wing spar corresponding to doublers; deburred edges and holes; shaved wing skin mating areas on forward part of outboard and inboard skins; dimpled all holes in inboard and outboard top skins; primed shaved skin mating areas; clecoed wing walk doublers and inboard and outboard top skins to wing assembly; deburred & dimpled j-stiffeners
- Left and Right flaps: attached trailing edge with 3M VHB tape; clecoed trailing edge and ribs; riveted trailing edge (squeezed); riveted bottom skin to ribs; attached flap to wing (temporary, left side only)
- right leading edge:  7 leading-edge ribs: straightened flanges, fluted flanges, deburred edges and tips, final-drilled #40 and #30 holes; deburred holes in 7 leading-edge ribs; dimpled flange holes; deburred, final drilled and dimpled splice strip; clecoed 7 ribs into the leading edge skin; match-drilled, deburred, dimpled j-stiffener
- Riveted right top skins to 9 ribs (200 rivets, with wife using back-bucking bar)
- Dimpled right leading edge skin; masked and scuffed area for black matte paint (light well/bay)
scuffed, cleaned and primed 7 ribs, mounting bracket for landing light, and mounting wedges for light lens, and skin; primed and painted black all areas visible in landing light bay; riveted nutplates to splice strips, mounting bracket and mounting wedges. Note that Van's doesn't supply enough K1100-08D nutplates, but way too many K1100-08 nutplates ... I guess I just have to dimple the #40 holes in the latter (which I did, and which were not a big issue).
- clecoed 7 ribs and splice strip to leading edge skin (right); riveted all top rivets and aft 3-most bottom rivets on all ribs

Primed shaved skins on inboard top skins (forward overlapped parts):

15 - Rear Spar (completed right side); 16 - Top Wing Skins (doublers, final- and match-drilled)

A decent amount was accomplished this week, including finishing the right rear spar, starting the right top inboard wing skin ... and, taking an EAA Sportair weekend (Sat/Sun) workshop on Fiberglass for RVs, taught by Scott Vanderveen.  This was an excellent class, which gave me the confidence and toolset to tackle the fiberglass parts, including the windscreen transition.

A few details from this week:

- riveted all 14 ribs to spar; installed final 4 sets of bolts and final-torqued and torque-striped
- prepared outboard aileron bracket (oh no!) and primed all 3 pieces
- drilled, countersunk and riveted outboard aileron bracket; prepared inboard aileron bracket; drilled and deburred 3 rear spar doubler plates; drilled aileron pushrod hole in doubler plate; enlarged hole in inboard doubler plate and straightened plate; prepped and straightened rear spar reinforcement fork; clecoed everything to ribs
- final-drilled all #30 holes common to doublers, rear spar and ribs; deburred all parts (edges/holes); primed inboard aileron (service bulletin) and all 5 doublers;machine countersunk #40 holes in spar flanges and #30 holes in W-1007-C inboard doubler; dimpled flanges of rear spar; riveted inboard aileron and doublers to rear spar
- reamed 3/8" inboard hole in rear spar doublers; riveted rear spar onto ribs; done.
- clecoed wing walk doublers and top skin to wing assembly; match drilled holes for nutplates; final drilled all holes common to skin, doublers and ribs; final drilled nutplate holes to #19; dimpled aft nutplate for #8 screw

Flap hinge brackets primed and attached to the 3rd and 8th rib (starting inboard):

Section 21 - Flaps (nearly finished right flap); Section 13 - Main Spar (finished right main spar); Section 14 - Wing Ribs (right wing ribs well underway)

Good progress was made this past week, even with taking a few days for a nice vacation and birthday celebration with my in-laws. A few details below (this post is short due to time constraints):

Riveted top skin to spar and ribs (right flap):