Title: More fitment and head scratching.
Completed nose rib number 4. Epoxied into place in wheel well bay. Epoxied leading edge and upper cap strip on forward sub spar. Mounted landing gear and swung it into the retract position to see potential conflicts. Realized that once again, the drawings do not reflect exactly what was built. In fact, nose rib number 3 as drawn didn't even exist on the completed plane, only a short section of rib stiffener. I realized this from the left over pieces from the original wing. Laid out location for secondary sub spar as shown with blue masking tape in photos. This sub spar will run diagonally from the nose of rib 1 to close to the main spar on rib 6. Actual location needed to be identified and ribs will have to be trimmed accordingly. This sub spar is not shown on the rib plans so notch in rib 4 had to be identified through fitment. Rib 4 will be modified tomorrow or the next day. Additionally, the retract spring runs from the fitting mounted to the main spar at rib 1 to the appropriate bracket on the landing gear. The corresponding notch or hole in rib 4 isn't shown on the drawings so it will have to be located through fitment. Cut out some plywood discs to mount the new tire to. This will allow me to mock up a new fork assembly and determine fitment for the wheel. Original tire sizes and wheels are no longer available. These new tires will use a standard 5.00 x 5 wheel but give the largest outer diameter possible with the narrowest tire and wheel size available. The original wheel and tire combo were larger diameter but narrower. The challenge will be to fit all this within the wing thickness. Marked up some drawings for Pierre to machine. He didn't like the fact that the original drawings were in metric. Some simple conversions and some minor changes to the drawings then e-mailed to Pierre to start machining.


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