Category: Fuselage

Today I am finishing the drilling of the left forward fuselage side. I am starting with the firewall attach angles. I used one of my steel rules clamped to the forward angle assembly in order to position the firewall attach angles.

Today I finished drilling al of the fasteners holes as per step 22. Next I pulled all of the clecos and started to deburr the parts in preparation for reassembly and drilling of the final holes.

I started today by drilling the two #30 pilot holes in the rudder pedal mount assembly. I had not drilled these holes when I made the assembly but I now needed them to transfer the holes into the rudder pedal angle.

Tonight I drilled the holes for all 6 of the F14-10 gussets.

Today I started to work on the right forward side panel. This panel was previously cut from sheet aluminium that had no protective plastic coating. In an effort to keep scratches to a minimum I purchased some plastic film intended for temporary carpet protection from my local home depot. This film is a low tack film that appears to be identical to some of the clear films I have found on other aluminium sheet that I have purchased. It was easy to apply to the outside of the sheet and I expect it will protect the sheet while it is face down on the bench and I work at assembling the panel. I located the top and bottom longerons, the forward angle and the rudder angle today.

Today I started by disassembling the right forward side panel so that I could deburr it and get ready for riveting.