Hello all,
Started working on the aileron gap fairing and flap brace this evening. Trimmed the flap brace and clecoed it to the rear spar and then moved on to the aileron gap fairing.
After I clecoed the aileron gap fairing to the rear spar, the top wing skin has been pulled down almost 1/8" to 3/16" to meet the fairing from where the wing skin lays coming off the flange of the rear spar. The skins on the wings have to be flexed down in order to come into contact with the gap fairing.
It almost seems to me that the flange on the rear spar may not be exactly correct as it comes from Van's and this could be causing the skin to flare up and not lay flat down on the gap fairing.
Or, maybe the flange angle is correct and the skin should be flexed down some??? There is no mention is the manual or plans that I can find regarding this.
In addition, there is an approximate 10 inch area of wing skin inboard of the point that the aileron gap fairing ends that is not pulled down similar to the skin clecoed to the gap fairing.
Anybody have any suggestions on this? Am I doing something wrong here? How should I move forward?
Should I flex the skin aft of the rear spar slightly so that it skin rests naturally onto the fairing and maintains an even line beyond the point it contacts the aileron gap fairing? I am not sure how one would go about changing the flange angle on the rear spar - there would be several feet of spar flange that would need to be adjusted consistently and to the same degree.
HELP !
As always, thank you to anyone that can lend some helping thoughts on this.
Started working on the aileron gap fairing and flap brace this evening. Trimmed the flap brace and clecoed it to the rear spar and then moved on to the aileron gap fairing.
After I clecoed the aileron gap fairing to the rear spar, the top wing skin has been pulled down almost 1/8" to 3/16" to meet the fairing from where the wing skin lays coming off the flange of the rear spar. The skins on the wings have to be flexed down in order to come into contact with the gap fairing.
It almost seems to me that the flange on the rear spar may not be exactly correct as it comes from Van's and this could be causing the skin to flare up and not lay flat down on the gap fairing.
Or, maybe the flange angle is correct and the skin should be flexed down some??? There is no mention is the manual or plans that I can find regarding this.
In addition, there is an approximate 10 inch area of wing skin inboard of the point that the aileron gap fairing ends that is not pulled down similar to the skin clecoed to the gap fairing.
Anybody have any suggestions on this? Am I doing something wrong here? How should I move forward?
Should I flex the skin aft of the rear spar slightly so that it skin rests naturally onto the fairing and maintains an even line beyond the point it contacts the aileron gap fairing? I am not sure how one would go about changing the flange angle on the rear spar - there would be several feet of spar flange that would need to be adjusted consistently and to the same degree.
HELP !
As always, thank you to anyone that can lend some helping thoughts on this.