During the inspection "before closing the wings", my builder advisor pointed out a possible wear on 2 different locations.
It's the rear edge of a nose rib, which barley touches the spar as depicted in the image below.
The concern is, that this might cause wear on either the rib edge or the spar in the future because of vibrations.
Since the bottom skins are already riveted to the wing structure, a removal of that rib (to dress the edge) would require a very big effort with the risk of damaging more than fixing anything for good.
More over, I very much hesitate to fiddle around with tools on that edge so close to the spar.
I asked Van's tech support for their opinion, but while waiting for the answer I thought to pass that also to the VAF community.
Is that something I need to worry about?
Thank you for any advice and/or opinion about that.
It's the rear edge of a nose rib, which barley touches the spar as depicted in the image below.
The concern is, that this might cause wear on either the rib edge or the spar in the future because of vibrations.
Since the bottom skins are already riveted to the wing structure, a removal of that rib (to dress the edge) would require a very big effort with the risk of damaging more than fixing anything for good.
More over, I very much hesitate to fiddle around with tools on that edge so close to the spar.
I asked Van's tech support for their opinion, but while waiting for the answer I thought to pass that also to the VAF community.
Is that something I need to worry about?
Thank you for any advice and/or opinion about that.
