Saturday, November 27, 2021

Left Wing - Wire Routing & Primer Prep

There are a number of ways to route wires in the wings.  They can either be routed through the lightening holes, through an enlarged tooling hole, or through holes drilled specifically for flexible conduit.  For ease of re-running wires in the future if there is ever a need, I'm going to use conduit.  Luckily, the used wing kit I bought had the conduit from Van's included.  The 3/4" hole to accept the conduit can be drilled anywhere in the lower 1/3 of the main ribs between the first two lightening holes.  The conduit is flexible, so getting the exact same location in each rib isn't all that important.  Just to get in the same ballpark, I made a cardboard template, pilot drilled the hole and then finished up with the unibit.

Beyond that, there's not much to show from today.  I spent a couple of hours cleaning and acid etching everything.  Tomorrow I'll see how well I can heat up the garage to get it all primed.