So during my condition inspection I made a bad decision. I used a block of wood in between my wing jack and my wing, and that block did not match the shape of the jack stand. Lowering the jack the block rotated and flipped out putting two small dents in the bottom of my wing. Fuck me. My fault, dumb of me to not make a better support. The painters could have filling them with epoxy/micro but I wasn’t thrilled with that idea. Instead I decided to cut out the damaged skin and install an inspection panel. Had I not written this post no one would have probably been the smarter about my screw up.
And here are the photos showing my three hour penance:
Here are the dents and the approximate placement of the inspection panel
Cut out for the new inspection panel
Match drilling the rivet holes into the wing skin
All the parts deburred and dimpled, let's start riveting
The panel frame primed and ready for install
Panel frame riveted onto the wing skin
All fixed up and looking like it should
Here is the wooden block I made after trying to take a short cut. This worked great and should give many years of service
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