by uscgairdale » Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:16 pm
I'm glad that you took a look inside your d-cells. The condition of the nose ribs don't appear to be to bad, but they obviously need to be re-glued back into place. Mine "felt" like they were in the right place, but the glue had become very brittle and totatly useless. Now that they're back together the d-cell "feels" much more solid, maybe it's just a boost to my confidence. In any case, I'm very glad to have spent the time to make sure that everything is good to go.
Check out this outboard nose rib! You can see the brittle glue and where all sorts of critters had eaten their way inside the wing. I found three old bees nests inside this d-cell.
Keep us posted on your progress,
Dave
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