Home | Research | Delivery | Empennage | Wings | Fuselage | Finish | Engine | Electrical | GRTDecode

Thu 13 October 2005

I continued with the RHS brace, same process, funky bends and cuts. Not quite as 'right' as the LHS but will work fine.
Then lots of jigging and measuring to make sure before any holes were drilled.
Rear brace drilled to the rear baffles. Two additional locations plus the part #15 location. Then jig drilled the 3 parts for the corner locations.
Finally got to the stage where the fuel divider was annoying me enough to remove it. Carefully done to not bend any of the stainless tubes and plugged / covered the injector solenoids.
One area that we are considering options was with the rotating of the fuel divider - this will be easier than we first thought as the bracket is pre-drilled with multiple locations. We will also look at the possibility to reduce the height of the divider which may be needed for cowl / plenum clearance.
With the top surface clear, I made a temporary jig the same width as the aft bracket. The pantograph type contraption can then be adjusted to get the 'best' solution.
The RHS side (left in the photo) is very good and parallel, the LHS is slightly tapered. Next step is drilling the front locations, currently debating whether to have the doubler plate under / over the braces.
Short day - finished early afternoon - some gardening to do (Blokes version - digging holes and filling them with posts and concrete!). What is it you ask - wait and see - it is aviation related.
Carl Morgan