Another stupid little mistake (and question)

[High_Flyer]

Hi everyone,
I've made another stupid little mistake and I'd like your opinion on this.
I'm making the holes in the wing ribs for the conduit to route electrical cables to the nav/landing lights.
Didn't pay enough attention when drilling the 1st one and drilled 6 ribs in the same way
Here's how I've drilled it:

According to Van's instructions the hole should be just after the forward lightening hole, about 2.5 inch further forward of where I've drilled it.
Do you think this is a concern? If yes I'll have to re-order 6 ribs...

Thanks for the advices,
Alain.

 

[David-aviator]

You could cut a hole where it should be and consider the mistake just another lightening hole.

 

[painless]

David is correct. That extra hole is a non- issue. Forge on.

 

[High_Flyer]

Ok, thanks for these very quick replies.
I'll continue, keeping these 6 ribs as they are and drilling all the others the way Vans recomends. There will be a slight "bend" in the conduit between ribs 6 and 7 making it a little bit harder to pull the electrical cables through but that's OK I think.
I'd be happy to hear from anyone else on this...
Alain.

 

[Mel]

Maybe you didn't understand the other posters. You can re-drill these ribs in the desired position as well. The additional hole is not a problem.

 

[Snowflake]

I agree with Mel... Get the holes all lined up, and save yourself a minor aggravation later as you try to run wiring. The extra hole should not be a problem at all.

 

[bkc3921]

Another possible solution

I found the entire wiring hole thing to be a pain. I had QB wings and believe the factory pre-drilled holes were slightly larger than they should have been. Subsequently, the snap bushings were constantly loose. I have a wingtip antenna in the R wing, and AOA tubing in the L wing. I used the pre-drilled holes (with the snap bushings secured by a little RTV) for those items. However, for the landing light, strobe and navigation wiring, I bought a stick of thin walled aluminum conduit for each wing. It sets in the large holes (watch out that it does not interfere with the control push rods)..and secured it in 3 places with cushioned clamps and a small piece of aluminum angle fabricated as a bracket. A snap bushing can be secured in each end of the conduit for edge protection. I believe the small weight penalty was worth it, as 90% of the electrical wiring is encased and not subject to wear from a failed snap bushing. Helps me sleep a little better...and it was a breeze to pull the wires with a fish tape. YMMV.

 

[High_Flyer]

Thanks for the inputs

Thank you for all the inputs.
I've finished drilling the ribs for the conduit as per your posts for both wings.
I received the SafeAir pitot static kit for dynon skyview a few days ago, and I've also enlarged the fwd upper and lower tooling holes to route 2 lines for the dynon pitot/aoa air lines. As Brian wrote in the last post the middle tooling hole is a bit too large for the bushings provided in the SafeAir kit, and looking at the plans it seems that using the middle hole would be more of a problem for interference with the aileron pushrod anyway.
Good day to all.
Alain.