A plethora of holes for the two lift strut attach brackets were previously drilled, and the brackets were cleco'd in place. We removed the brackets, deburred all the holes, and cleaned/abraded the mating surfaces to get ready for epoxy. We then epoxied and riveted the two strut brackets to the spars.
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| Lift strut bracket at leading edge of right wing |
The center rivet on the back bracket was difficult to set because of a center brace that gets in the way. We got around this problem by making a small wedge with a hole in the center. We bent a rivet stem at first just to get the rivet into its hole, and then fed the rivet stem through the hole in the wedge. The wedge then allowed us to use the rivet gun at a slight angle so that we could access and pull the center rivet. We fought with this rivet for a while at first, but the job was much easier once we used the metal wedge Hours: 3.5
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| Strut bracket, with small wedge tool shown |
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