{"id":697,"date":"2013-12-31T16:04:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T00:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stol750project.info\/?p=697"},"modified":"2013-12-31T16:04:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T00:04:20","slug":"forward-fuselage-4-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"Forward Fuselage (4 h)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday my compressor got sick, every time the tank fills with air the safety valve opens so it was a short day as I couldn’t do any of the gear strut drilling that still remained. We took it to a repair shop and in the meantime one of my brother in laws has loaned me his.<\/p>\n

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A meaty beast it is!<\/p>\n

So without a compressor I went back to the forward fuselage where I still needed to join the forward angles to their corresponding l-angles (I am sure you all remember this!). I had already drawn a rivet line, I just had to mark the rivet spots.<\/p>\n

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I trimmed them so that there were no overlaps at the skin edge that might cause some friction and wear the metal away, and then I trial fit them inside the fuselage.<\/p>\n

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You might also remember that the left motor mount had not been drilled in the correct place but after some hard thought I decided to use the existing mount with a new hole, the proper hole being far enough away from the wrong one. So I clamped it firmly in place and drilled the bolt holes.<\/p>\n

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I test fit a bolt and drilled everything to final size<\/p>\n

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I then did the same with the lower engine mounts, clamping them in place and back drilling through the holes in the bottom skin, enlarging to 3\/16″.<\/p>\n

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All four engine mounts have now been drilled and can be installed when the rest of the firewall is put together.<\/p>\n

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The compressor had arrived with great timing and I was able to return to the last few holes in the gear strut fitting. First I enlarged the earlier holes to size 20 that match the ones in the seat base. Then I took two l-angles pilot-drilled on both flanges and back drilled into the gear channel and gear strut fitting.<\/p>\n

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The compressor also meant I could rivet the forward angles, I did not relish the idea of doing those by hand,<\/p>\n

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and complete:<\/p>\n

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Other than deburring and priming I am ready to bolt\/rivet the gear strut fittings in place and rivet the inside of the forward fuselage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday my compressor got sick, every time the tank fills with air the safety valve opens so it was a short day as I couldn’t do any of the gear strut drilling that still remained. We took it to a…<\/p>\n

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