Title: Attaching nutplates to left spar
I made it back home from Oshkosh on Saturday afternoon; it was lots of fun as always, and only some slight inconveniences caused by weather. While at Oshkosh, I stopped by the Flyleds booth and decided on going with their lighting package for the standard Van's tips and leading edge lights, rather than the added expense of the ZipTips or AeroLED tips. My Flyleds order has been placed and it should arrive in a few days. I also stopped by the Dynon booth and I'm still leaning towards them, particularly because of their Dynon Fast Track trays and Advanced Control Module (ACM) Jump Start Kit that simplifies most of the avionics wiring. I'll wait until at least next year before ordering the avionics though. After arriving back home, there were packages containing my back-ordered Wing Kit parts waiting for me. I did a quick inventory of all of the parts and I now have everything for the wings, including the VA-140 trailing edge extrusion and the nutplates for the wing spars. So I started by attaching the 48 nutplates to the left wing spar, since the spar was still out on my table and in a convenient orientation. With each nutplate, I kept a corresponding screw in its hole while riveting to ensure that there wouldn't be any problems later. What's next? I need to finish countersinking the nutplate screwholes on the spar, now that all of the nutplates are mounted. I also need to finish the dimpling and priming of the rear spar.


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