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I started off by priming the inside of the counterweights. It would have been much easier to do this before drilling all of the holes. I taped over the holes and poured in some primer. One of the holes wasn’t well sealed, and I ended up with paint everywhere. Oh well.
I then started to put together the aileron skeletons. Van’s has definitely changed the nose rib to counterweight connection. The instructions say to do this blind rivet first, which is pretty easy to do. Just bend the tab a little bit, pull the rivet, and then bend the rib back in position. Very easy.
I also riveted the reinforcement plates to the spar and the spar to the nose ribs.
The last thing I did on the ailerons today was to cleco the skins to the top of the spar in preparation for riveting. I’m going to wait until Julie can help with it, though.
The hot weather has finally broken. I was going to fly this morning, but we have very low ceilings. I don’t even mind, because today will be 20 degrees cooler than yesterday. Whew!