My brother-in-law Nate came over to the hangar this afternoon to help reinstall the wings. He had helped with the initial install way back in the garage when I set the angle of incidence and rigged the flight controls.

It went well with no surprises. I sprayed down the mating faces and bolt holes with LPS-2, slid the left wing home, aligned with a couple of drift pins and tapped in the -7 bolts with a rubber mallet far enough to make sure that everything was aligned, then drove them home with some light taps from a rivet gun with a nylon tipped set. once they were all seated with nuts just on finger tight, we moved to the other side and repeated the process.

fyi- I'd frozen the hardware ahead of time and had it on ice packs in the hangar until moments before installation. We used to do this with gear trunnion bearings on the jets, but in this case I don't really think that it made any difference. they were still pretty tight.

Anyway, I'm going back to the hangar tomorrow and plan to get nuts on and torqued for these, as well as get the bolts through the aft spar. My hopes to finish up the permanent wing attach tasks and maybe even get the empennage on, so we'll see how that goes...