Continued doing detail work today. The right wing skins are done, so I lubed and installed the bellcrank and connected the small pushrod to the aileron, and installed washers and spacers on the aileron pushrod attach hardware. With that done, I inserted the bellcrank jig provided by Vans.

More artsy photo work

I also fabricated a fixture per the plans to indicate when the aileron is in the neutral position; that’s the wood strip you see in the pic below. It’s simply a piece of wood with two AN bolts spaced to fit in tooling holes in the outboard wing rib. Parallel lines drawn tangent to the bolt holes extend back (or to the top, in this case) and the aileron is neutral when its trailing edge is centered between the lines. I’ve seen other, more complex ways of doing this but the plans approach works fine.

After than, it was a tedious but straightforward process to adjust the small pushrod rod-ends to align the aileron to neutral.

Right aileron jigged