Wings to Fuselage for first time
I just did the mating of the wings to fuselage for the first time on my RV-7A. You can see it at
www.mykitlog.com/sglynn. I did it by myself after my wife helped me take them off the cradle and lay them on two saw horses. Here are my tips:
1) use two saw horses to support inboard and tip of wing at the same level as the fuselage.
2) keep wings level as you first push them in so that the bottom of the wing spar doesn't scrape on the mid-fuselage bottom skin.
3) After you get them in put a bolt (or centering bolt) in the top and then lift the wing tip about 6 inches to align the bottom holes.
4) Use all purpose grease on the wing stub and bolts
5) I put in two bolts plus the centering bolts I left in each wing for a total of three bolts in each wing. I didn't put on nuts. Didn't seem to need it.
6) To push the wing in I found I could push at the wing tip and wiggle slightly back n forth, up and down and it went in pretty easy. I put a rope around the fuselage and back around to me so I could hold it and keep the fuselage from moving away from my pushing forces.
5) I also have my bottom skins only clecoed on, and that seemed okay
6) Later to get the bolts out I used a punch to first knock them back out a little. Then I pushed them with a crow bar. They came out fairly easy.
Finally after getting them together I just followed the plan to rig alignment, sweep, angle of attack.
have fun