Rear Baggage Wall

I fit and drilled the lower portion of the rear baggage wall.  The top portion needs a radius cut in it.  After measuring for the center, I taped one of my sharpie pens to an old compass and adjusted it to 8.5″ and marked the cut.  I then used some tin snips and a vixen file to trim to the line.

After laying out for the holes, I matched drilled it to the F-706 bulkhead.  It’s unfortunate that the radius of the baggage wall doesn’t match the radius of the bulkhead, but this is what the plans specify.

All of the holes need to be drilled for nutplates.

After deburring and dimpling the bulkhead, I dimpled the nutplates (the bulkhead is only 0.024″, so I didn’t want to countersink for NAS1097 rivets).  I then installed all of the nutplates that mount directly in the bulkhead.  I’m not installing the ones that also rivet to the baggage floor since I’m not ready to rivet that in yet.

The F-728 rib needs several nutplates where the wall attaches.  Since this is 0.040″, I countersunk for NAS1097AD4 rivets.

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