ArVeeNiner
Well Known Member
This may be a question for Van's but I'll throw it out here.
A couple of years ago I fit checked my wings to the fuselage. I used undersized bolts pretty much but I went ahead and fit checked the real bolts at some point. Frankly, I can't remember doing this but I know I did. I may have fit checked them only into the wing spars.
Anyway, on one bolt, I noticed a small nick. I didn't like that so I thought that I'd replace it someday. Well, I was putting an order in to Van's today and thought I'd look at the rest of the bolts and 5 of the 8 have nicks.
Are these anything to worry about? I guess I could replace them all at $11 a pop just for piece of mind. I looked in the spars themselves and I didn't see any damage in there so I'm not sure how they got this way.
I've lined up the nicks all in a row in the pictures below. Some are hard to see.
A couple of years ago I fit checked my wings to the fuselage. I used undersized bolts pretty much but I went ahead and fit checked the real bolts at some point. Frankly, I can't remember doing this but I know I did. I may have fit checked them only into the wing spars.
Anyway, on one bolt, I noticed a small nick. I didn't like that so I thought that I'd replace it someday. Well, I was putting an order in to Van's today and thought I'd look at the rest of the bolts and 5 of the 8 have nicks.
Are these anything to worry about? I guess I could replace them all at $11 a pop just for piece of mind. I looked in the spars themselves and I didn't see any damage in there so I'm not sure how they got this way.
I've lined up the nicks all in a row in the pictures below. Some are hard to see.
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