Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Will Drill the Longerons Tomarrow









Had another good day! A lot of deburring. Installed all on Page 23-04 without any problems. Things looked a bit weird so I trial fitted the left and right skin to the fuselage. All of the holes matched so I disassembled all and then continued. Removed all of the machining marks from the edges on the skins. Then had to cut the holes for the wings in the fuselage side skins. Used drills, the unibit, snips, the dremel tool with a cut off disk and had to file to the line quite a bit with the multitude of files in the toolchest. The Vixen file was a godsend. Took quite a bit of time but the result is very, very acceptable. Page 23-06 Step 1 took me for a loop. I tried and tried again to figure how to attach the F-1202L gussets. Perspectives on the plans are strange at times. Had to look forward in the plans to Page 29-03. The perspective here was much clearer. It should be installed correctly.

Will match drill the longeron tomorrow.

Time - 7 hours