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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nSome of the holes where the fuel tank brackets attach can’t be reached with any of my regular bucking bars, so I taped a hunk of steel to one of my long rivet sets and used the rightmost end to buck the rivets.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nJenn came out and helped Andre and I flip the fuselage.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nJenn took a shot of me checking out the pilot’s seat.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nAndre and I checkout out how roomy the cockpit is.<\/p>\n
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Here you can see that I’m using two low saw horses under the front part of the fuselage so that it is nice and stable when climbing in and out.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nAfter Andre took off, I installed the AN3 bolts through the lower engine mounts and lower longerons. \u00a0I probably should have done this before riveting on the bottom skin since I couldn’t get a torque wrench on these. \u00a0I had to calibrate my hand and do these by feel.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nAfterward, I leveled the fuselage front to back. \u00a0Here is the reading along the longerons between F-704 and F-705.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nI also leveled the fuselage side to side at several points along the fuselage to ensure there was no twist. \u00a0Here is the reading at F-705.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nAnd at F-704.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nAnd at F-710. \u00a0I doubled checked all of the readings with a bubble level and them clamped the aft deck in place.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nI needed a ratchet clamp to apply a little side load on the aft vertical bars to remove all of the twist. \u00a0After I tripled checked everything was straight, I drilled the aft deck to the longerons.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nGoddamnit! \u00a0I got my foot caught up in the air hose, pulling my drill and box of rivets to the floor. \u00a0After swearing a blue streak for a few minutes, I started trying to sort them and then realized it was going to take several hours. \u00a0This is probably only about $10 worth of rivets, so it’s just not worth my time.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andre stopped by today to help me finish up the riveting on the forward fuselage. \u00a0We didn’t get any pictures during the process, but here is the finished result. \u00a0The holes along the firewall will wait until they’re match drilled to the hinges that are used to attach the cowling. Some of the holes where … 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-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuselage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","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=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2838,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/2838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}