{"id":411,"date":"2013-12-04T16:54:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T16:54:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-13T02:24:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T02:24:00","slug":"riveted-canopy-latch-handle-br","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2013\/12\/04\/riveted-canopy-latch-handle-br\/","title":{"rendered":"Riveted Canopy Latch Handle Bracket and Lock, Drilled Lower Left Empennage Fairing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I riveted the mounting angles that hold the canopy latch handle as well as the lock. \u00a0I removed the lock’s cam so that it doesn’t get painted since it would just immediately get scratched up. \u00a0Afterward, I primed this area with some self-etching primer.<\/p>\n

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I also drilled the lower empennage fairing to the fuselage and horizontal stabilizer. \u00a0The two holes in the fuselage go through the longeron and replace a couple of rivets. \u00a0I’ll add standard nutplates here just like the forward holes in the upper empennage fairing. \u00a0The rear nutplate in the horizontal stabilizer goes through the flange of the rear spar, and I can use a standard nutplate there as well. \u00a0The forward hole just goes into the horizontal stabilizer skin, and the inner rib would make it a pain to install a nutplate there. \u00a0My plan is to order a couple of Click Bond adhesive mounted nutplates to install here.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the fairing doesn’t fit perfectly. \u00a0The vertical flange fits nice and tight against the side of the fuselage, but there’s a fairly large gap in the middle between the fairing and the horizontal stabilizer. \u00a0I’m going to spend some time with a heat gun to see if I can reshape it to fit better.<\/p>\n

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I riveted the mounting angles that hold the canopy latch handle as well as the lock. \u00a0I removed the lock’s cam so that it doesn’t get painted since it would just immediately get scratched up. \u00a0Afterward, I primed this area with some self-etching primer. I also drilled the lower empennage fairing to the fuselage and … 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":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empennage","category-finishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","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=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3622,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}