Fitting the aileron gap seal.
Dimpled the wing skin and fitted the inspection plate
There is a definite order to building the quickbuild wings. When they arrive all skins are installed except the lower outboard. So, for those who are starting on the QB wings, you need to attach the aileron brackets, mark the rib centerlines, and cleco the skin to the wing using the prepunched holes. Align the prepunched holes with the centerline marked on the ribs (you can reach under the skin to move the ribs slightly if needed). Drill and cleco the skin to the ribs. Remove the skin and debur and dimple the wing skin and ribs. Put the wing skin on again to fit the outboard inspection cover to the wing skin. I used #6 screws to hold the inspection plate in place on the spar and drilled the #8 screws. After drilling for the nutplates, I deburred, dimpled and attached the nutplates. Regarding the K1100-8R8 nutplates, I've been doing them slightly wrong. For these, I recommend you not dimple for the rivets - only for the screws. Countersink for the rivets and the nutplate will fit much better. Fit the aileron gap seal to the rear spar, drill, scotchbrite, prime and install. With the skin clecoed in place, hang the aileron so that you can align the trailing edges of the aileron and flap and set the spacing between flap and aileron. Clamp the flap hinge and flap brace in position and hang the flap on the hinge. Align the trailing edge and set the spacing. Mark the location of the hinge. Pull the flap hinge pin and reclamp the flap brace and hinge to the bottom skin. Drill and cleco the flap hinge to the wing skin and flap brace. Remove the brace to debur, scotchbrite and prime. Rivet the brace in place. Some of the rivets will have to be blind rivets.
The flap brace fitted and the flap hinge and brace drilled to the bottom skin. The Van's-made flap and aileron have lined up perfectly on the QB wings. The QB is really the way to go. Removed the flap brace, dimpled, scotchbrited, and primed. The bottom skin is forced to bend slightly away from the flap brace when installed. The flap brace installation went much smoother this time than for the left wing. On the wing, Nelson suggested we fit the flap, then remove it and clamp the brace and hinge in place for drilling. Much easier than drilling with the flap actually hanging on the wing - as I did the first time.