Drilled Forward Cover

I fabricated a little drilling jig to ensure the holes were a fixed distance off the floor.  After some careful measurements to ensure I’d hit the clips on the ends of the mounting brackets, I drilled the floor stiffeners to the forward cover.

It looks like my measurements were accurate, I hit the center of each of the clips.  I’m waiting on some miniature nutplates from Aircraft Spruce, then these can be riveted permanently.

The forward two holes just go into the cover, so I installed a couple of K1000-08 nutplates there and then reinstalled the cover.

Now that the cover is in its final location, the two upper holes can be match drilled into the firewall recess.

I drilled and countersunk for NAS1097 rivets, but I can’t reach these with a squeezer so I’ll have to shoot these later.

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