Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

[Rynoth]

I feel like the folgers can is there just to show off your polish job... are you already at C grade before riveting? Looks fantastic!

I had to bend out the skins slightly aft of the tail stack to accomodate the rivets due to the new doubler, just make sure everything fits together before you finish that part off.

[Bryan Cotton]

Thanks Ryan! I have been guilty of showing off the polish job before, but this time the can was just holding clecoes. We have been doing about 3 passes with F9 and a pass with C, then calling it good enough. Still plenty of room for improvement, the iphone camera does not show the swirls or scratches.

[Bryan Cotton]

We drilled the bottom skin to the longerons. It was an exercise in cleco management. Adam shot all the #40's and I came back through with a #30 bit.

[ScottM-Sonex1629]

Hey Bryan,

Word of caution, it looks like your Cross tie box assembly F24-01 is installed with the un riveted side "upside down". When you go to bolt down the splice plates they pass through the top piece of this cross tie box and the nuts get installed from inside the assembly. After this is done you rivet on the lower alum. piece for this box. Hopefully I'm wrong or you can still flip it over and the pilot holes line up okay.

Scott

[Bryan Cotton]

Thanks Scott. The other way the holes did not line up. We may have made an error there.

[ScottM-Sonex1629]

Did you trim any off the width of the cross tie box and confirm 40" overall fuselage width?

[Bryan Cotton]

Scott,
We are at 40", but had the splice plates out so we did not trim for that interference today. Today's task was drilling the belly skin.

[Sonex1462]

It is awesome that you have your son to help!!

[Bryan Cotton]

Thanks 1462, it is awesome. With two drills going the progress comes fast.

On my cross tie box we riveted on the lower rather than the upper cover. Whoops! Got some drilling in my future. I do miss solid aluminum rivets at redo time. Having drilled out about a bajillion of them on the C140 project I got reasonably good at it.

[Sonex1517]

Bryan

Seems to be a common theme. I also riveted on the lower and had to drill it out....


Robbie Culver
Sonex 1517
Chicagoland
Tails and Wings complete - finishing fuselage.
N1517S reserved