Build Log for Sonex 0849B
Deburred and cleaned aft lower and forward wing skins along with root doubler. Tiedown hole in lower skin up drilled to 3/4″ per plans. LH forward skin dimpled. Leveled LH rib assembly on workbench and reattached alignment angle between main…
Deburred, scotchbrited, and cleaned upper wing skin with acetone. Hours Worked: 1.20
Completed assembly of LH wing rib installation by prepping and riveting forward and aft ribs #6 – #12. Rear spar deburred, cleaned, and riveted to rib assembly. LH aft root rib riveted to rear spar. Hours Worked: 3.49
Attached W17-01L assembly to main spar. Bolt direction altered from plans to account for rivet interference. Starting inboard and working outboard, attached forward and aft ribs 1-5 to main spar and riveted into place. Forward ribs scotchbrited, acetoned, deburred, and…
Removed forward and aft root ribs from main spar and finished pilot drilling ribs to attach angles. Reinforcement gussets matched drilled and all holes up drilled. Everything deburred, prepped and riveted together. Root Rib assembly complete pending installation to main…
Continued to disassemble LH wing down to sub assemblies. Deburred main spar all sides. Hours Worked: 1.28
Last two rows of rivets on lower side of forward skin up drilled. LH forward and aft upper wing skins removed to final drill aileron bell crank support holes and tie down bolt hole. Finally, lower aft skin removed from…
Up drilled top side of LH wing and most of bottom side. Yet to up drill forward two most rows of rivets on lower forward skin Hours Worked: 5.15
Trimmed LH wing tip tail end where it attaches to rear spar and notched top edge for main spar. Trimmed a 1/2″ channel in the bottom edge of the wing tip to accommodate rib flanges pointing outwards. Wing tip pilot…
Laid out landing light template on LH wing and trimmed opening for landing light lens. Cleaned up edges with rotary tool and scotchbrite pads. Created upper retaining bracket and riveted into place. Created lower retaining bracket and temporarily secured with…
Took W16-06 aft rib and modified it using template from plans into W16-11 aft root rib. Removed both forward and aft root rib attach angles to insert root ribs then temporarily reattached. Aligned root ribs to wing skin, pilot drilled…
Created W05-02 and W03-02 hinge halves from M3 piano hinge and pilot drilled/clecoed to LH wing. LH doubler clecoed onto wing and holes for root rib drilled into wing skins. Forward most row of lower forward skin holes pilot drilled…