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Finished drilling the first aileron. Clecoed together and drilled the second aileron to final size. Drilling the galvanized pipe takes quite a while and makes a mess of iron shavings. Drilling the hole that holds the little tab to the galvanized pipe is tricky. The instructions say to go through one of the holes on the spar with a long drill bit. It works!
I just noticed something interesting. On Dan’s aileron drilling page at the bottom, you’ll notice that the tabs on the aileron nose ribs point inward. Apparently, Van’s changed this since the tabs now face outward. I guess this was done to make drilling and pulling those blind rivets easier.
I also started deburring all of the parts.
Working on the ailerons is pretty fun. It reminds me of working on the empennage. After a few dozen hours, you have a complete part versus the hundreds of hours that the wings take.