wing skins

[wingnut99]

Can one of you members advise me on the best order of installing the skin on my Waiex? I'm pretty much done with the control surfaces and attachment rods at this point and am thinking that I'd like to go ahead and cover the one I've completed so that if anything is not entirely correct I won't repeat the mistake on the other side. I thought I would proceed with the top skin first, just clecoing it with the silver clecos then flip it over and do the bottom and the leading edge. If everything lines up and drops into place I'd probably updrill the bottom and rivet it and then updrill the top but leave it and the top of the leading edge in clecos until I see how it fits to the fuselage. Anyone who wants to confirm or advise a different approach will be greatly appreciated. Wingnut

[Bryan Cotton]

My sequence was documented here:
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=578&start=590

[Rynoth]

When updrilling, you typically want the wing supported flat on the table so you can make adjustments to verify it is level and square (no twist.)

Once everything is updrilled and deburred the holes themselves should keep everything square, so you might find the top and bottom skins easier to rivet by standing the wing vertically on sawhorses, forward edge down.

http://www.rynoth.com/wordpress/waiex/2 ... ompletion/

Regardless of the method, just be sure when you cleco then flip the wing that you properly support it. i.e. do not rest the wing on the tips of the clecos.

edit: also, if I recall correctly, the bottom skin is placed and drilled first. Can't remember if that was in the plan instructions or not but I seem to remember it from the builder workshop and it's the order I did (bottom>top>front.) Might be because it lays flatter than the top skin and helps lock the wing into place before flipping it.