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Apr 03, 2022 4.5 17-3: Dimpling leading edges and cleco fail Category: 17: Outboard LE
Finished all of the DRDT2 work on both skins and then dimples the perimeter and all of the ribs on the right LE with the squeezer. Started clecoing it together. Found that if I start with the leading edge it is a bit easier to align the holes and get the ribs tight to the skin.

Got all of the right ribs cleco'd into the skin, putting a cleco in every single hole and got to the last rib which is supposed to face the opposite direction. It did face the opposite direction, but not the correct direction. I just cleco'd all the right ribs into the left skin! Ugh. That's a lot of clecos to undue.

4/4 update: Was able to put in another 1.5 after work and got left ribs dimpled, fixed the clecos for the left skin, finished the nutplate attachments and even squeezed the top two rivets on every rib. Setting it aside to advance the right LE.

4/5: got the right skin cleco'd in place and cleaned up the shop a bit before work. Going to set the LEs aside and go back to deburring main ribs.


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