Things have been going along well, except for tonight. It never ceases to amaze me the stupid mistakes I can make despite reading closely.
On 08-04 Step #2, you clamp the spar cap onto the front spar and then you are supposed to match drill the #30 holes from the spar into the cap. The cap is supplied undrilled.
The flange of the spar has #40 holes as you would expect because of course the skin will mate up against it and all of those rivets are AD3 Rivets. I drilled the first four holes as #30 on the FLANGE rather than the web of the spar. I did this even though the predrilled holes in the flange are #40 and I even stopped to think about it as I drilled those up to #30 and right into the spar cap.
Nothing that $60 worth of parts + I am guessing another $30 of shipping won't solve...
Sigh.....
I am not even going to bother contacting Vans on this one because I think that the edge distance for a #30 AD4 rivet is more than the 3/16" that is available.
For now I will just finish the prep on the Rudder and Vertical Stabilizer and prime and assemble those. I will wait on the reorder to see if any other parts get messed up while I put the Rudder together.
Edit: I actually went ahead and ordered the part.... I was quite wrong on the shipping.. For the $60 in parts it will be $110 shipping. Contemplating my options including waiting for the fuse kit and having it shipped with that. I would complete the Horizontal Stab prior to working on the fuse. Very disappointing and a really silly mistake to make on my part.
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