July 24, 2005 - Fuselage |
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| Drilling the left hand seatbelt anchor brackets. I have an AN-4 bolt through both brackets to keep them aligned. I put a spacer between the brackets, then clamped them together. Now I'm able to match-drill the left hand bracket, using the bottom assembly as a template. | ||||||
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Drilling complete. The brackets are bolted to the bottom assembly
temporarily. I don't like the way the bracket bottoms overhang the
bottom of the assembly. I will trim them with the dremel tool
later. I have to trim the side of a couple of brackets to allow
for some rivets.
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| Fashioning two angle pieces for the F-705 top assembly. This was a real time killer. The thick aluminum makes for slow going with the hacksaw. Every hundred saws I wish I had bought a bandsaw! | ||||||
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Fashioning some angle reinforcers for the top assembly. Thin
aluminum, no problem.
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| Angle reinforcers, spacers and plates for the top assembly. All must be cut, deburred, drilled, the plates must be bent, yada, yada, yada. | ||||||
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| The plate requires a bend down the center line. I don't have a brake so I just used the hand-seamer as shown here. It worked nicely. | ||||||
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