December 14, 2005 - Firewall Drilled |
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| I was concerned about keeping the skin tight with the longeron. You can't cleco it because the firewall lower bracket sits on the inside of the longeron. I ended up using duct tape to keep the skin tight to the longeron. It worked great! | ||||||
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I put the firewall and bottom skin back on and double-checked that
everything was ready to drill the side skins to the firewall and
firewall upper brackets.
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| Everything looked good so I started drilling. | ||||||
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I love working on my plane.
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| The left side drilled to the firewall. You can see at the bottom that I have the skin clamped to the firewall upper bracket. | ||||||
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| OK, I have started drilling the skin to longeron to the firewall upper bracket. I have the skin duct taped to the longeron, and the skin clamped to the longeron and bracket, and finally 4-4 rivets inserted in the holes just to help keep things aligned. | ||||||
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| The forward bottom skin gets tucked on the inside of the side skin. | ||||||
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Drilling the firewall upper bracket is complete! I was pleased
with how it came out. The bracket is tight to the longeron which
is tight to the skin.
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| Firewall drilling is complete. | ||||||
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