{"id":1013,"date":"2010-03-30T17:14:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T17:14:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-04T16:22:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:22:02","slug":"drilled-forward-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2010\/03\/30\/drilled-forward-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Drilled Forward Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

I fabricated a little drilling jig to ensure the holes were a fixed distance off the floor. \u00a0After 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.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/center>It looks like my measurements were accurate, I hit the center of each of the clips. \u00a0I’m waiting on some miniature nutplates from Aircraft Spruce, then these can be riveted permanently.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/center>The forward two holes just go into the cover, so I installed a couple of K1000-08 nutplates there and then reinstalled the cover.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/center>Now that the cover is in its final location, the two upper holes can be match drilled into the firewall recess.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/center>I drilled and countersunk for NAS1097 rivets, but I can’t reach these with a squeezer so I’ll have to shoot these later.<\/p>\n

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I fabricated a little drilling jig to ensure the holes were a fixed distance off the floor. \u00a0After 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 … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuselage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2872,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}