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Another rockin' night in the shop. I drilled the joint plate on the right leading edge. This took a lot of checking. After every hole, I checked that the joiner and the rib weren't moving. In the end it turned out great. Next was to drill the tie down hole. Mine was 1/8" towards the tip and 1/8" towards the aft of where Van's prepunched hole was. I drilled out a #30 hole where I marked the tie down hole center, which formed a figure 8 with the pre-existing hole. Then I used a unibit in my cordless drill on its lowest speed. This worked really well because I could direct where the unibit was drilling. After each notch, I re-evaluated where the hole alignment was. I got it lined up dead nuts! I only got it as big as the 3/8" thread for now. I am still playing with how I am going to mount the tiedowns from Van's. With the right leading edge done, I moved onto the left one. This flew by and I got as far as drilling the joiner plate tonight. I also didn't match drill any of the leading edge to the ribs or spar. Van's indicated you need to match drill it to the ribs, but doesn't mention the spar. I might give them a call tomorrow to see what the word is. The leading edge joiner drilled in place. Once I got it in, I started on the top aft and worked myself around to the bottom aft. I got excellent results, with only a very slight gap in the very front.  You can see to the lower left of the prepunched hole where I needed to drill out the tiedown hole.  This was my first hole with a #30 bit.  I worked the figure 8 with some files first, then with the unibit to get this perfectly snug fit. I will definitely have to make this bigger, but I need to go to the aviation department at Home Depot to figure out how to put Van's tiedown eye on here with some style.  The left leading edge almost done.  Notice: Undefined variable: categoryid in /Websites/rvplane.com/public_html/main.php on line 160
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