Building my -10 with riveted TE and it is really warped after riveting the top skin and counter balance. Bottom skin and TE are not riveted in place yet so I'm looking for opinions and suggestions on how to proceed. I'll break down my steps and attach a picture of the 7/16 inch difference in height of the TE.
I was able to get the TE to lay flat when I had weight on the bottom (laying on top side) and removing half the clecos on bottom skin and cleco the TE to the wedge. But it reverts back to the twist after removing the TE and weight so I don't think i can rivet the bottom skin?
Steps I did:
- didn't final drill anything since the holes were final size from factory.
-dimpled all my skins including the nose skin which shouldn't have been, so I had to countersink the counterbalance.
-riveted the counterbalance to the nose ribs and spar assembly before riveting my top skin (plans call for counter balance riveting after top and bottom skins are riveted)
My thoughts on fixing:
Drill out counter balance rivets and all the top skin rivets and restart riveting the top skin. I'm not sure how to keep things flat as I rivet though. One thing I read on the forum was to rivet randomly on the top skin versus what I did which was start and one end and work toward the other.
I was able to get the TE to lay flat when I had weight on the bottom (laying on top side) and removing half the clecos on bottom skin and cleco the TE to the wedge. But it reverts back to the twist after removing the TE and weight so I don't think i can rivet the bottom skin?
Steps I did:
- didn't final drill anything since the holes were final size from factory.
-dimpled all my skins including the nose skin which shouldn't have been, so I had to countersink the counterbalance.
-riveted the counterbalance to the nose ribs and spar assembly before riveting my top skin (plans call for counter balance riveting after top and bottom skins are riveted)
My thoughts on fixing:
Drill out counter balance rivets and all the top skin rivets and restart riveting the top skin. I'm not sure how to keep things flat as I rivet though. One thing I read on the forum was to rivet randomly on the top skin versus what I did which was start and one end and work toward the other.