Lindy
2/26/2007
Tonight was pretty cool! I started by finishing up the tail spring mount between the 711 and 712 bulkheads. The holes for the "keeper" rivets were marked and drilled first.
Then the holes for the AN4 bolts that fasten the forward plate to the 711 bulkhead were drilled and reamed to 1/4". The bolts are just there for the picture. I also drilled the hole in the bottom of the skin for access to the nut in the tail spring mount, but didn't get a picture of this. All of this was disassembled after that.
Next came the really cool part of the evening. I brought down the aft bottom skin and the 707 and 708 bulkheads and deburred the edges of the skin. Then I cleco'd the bulkheads to the skin.
The J channels needed to be marked for centerline, and then they were slide in to place in the bulkheads. Don't know why, but I didn't take a picture of this...Anyway, then I went and grabbed the side skins, deblued and deburred the edges of those, and cleco'd them to the bulkheads!! SWEET!!
I had just finished this up when Brit pulled in the garage...in her words "That's cool!"
3.5 hours