Thursday, February 5, 2009

Still On Section 21






Forgot to take a bunch of pictures before Renee and I flipped over the fuselage. Attached the left and right ramp floors and then attached again the multitude of nutplates. Inserted the control column and bolted it up to the specified torque value. Free as can be. Used two AN960-10 washers on each side of the brackets. Using a piece of scotch tape made inserting the washers sort of easy. Riveted the step ribs and cleco'ed the bulkhead. Flipped the fuselage and inserted the bushings.

UPDATE: Do not install the SB750-10 bushings in the tunnel because they will have to be removed for the wiring in the finishing kit. There is a SB750-10 bushing on F-1203A and F-1204A. These are next to the SB-437-4 bushings. You can slit them and install them later.

Completed the day by priming all of the mating surfaces and then prepping and cleco'ing the corner skins. Riveting on Friday. No real problems. Follow the plans!!

Time - 8 hours