Friday, February 10, 2017

Spar/Rib Spacers (1.5)

1.5 hours

It's getting close to time to start putting the wing structure together, but one of the last detail parts required is all these little spacers.  There are 0.125" x 1/2" spacers for 10 of the aft ribs, and 0.032" x 1/2" spacers for 8 of the forward ribs.  So for both wings I needed 20 of the .125" and 16 of the .032".

I started on the .125" spacers, and I found a sheet of material that would work.  I cut one spacer out on the bandsaw and then I realized I had a whole 10' piece of 0.125" x 1/2" bar stock for this very part.  So I cut the other 19 out of the bar stock!  Hopefully whatever I needed that sheet for didn't need the whole length...


For the 0.032" spacers I just cut a bunch of long 1/2" strips out of this sheet with snips, and then cut them to length.


 
All 36 done!


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