Sunday, February 1, 2009

January 17, 2009: Step Attach Angles and Nutplate Bracket

On this Saturday, I spent 4.5 hours on the plane, pg. 21-16 & 17, riveting the bottom skin and stiffeners into place. No problems here, just keep at it!

Then, moved onto step 1 on page 21-17 and this went well for a time. I read the directions carefully but not carefully enough. The plans call for you to separate the F-1236 Step Attach Angles and then step 2 calls for trimming "2" of the attach angles. Things were going so well and I was so engrossed in doing a good job with trimming, deburring, etc. that I did all 4 attach angles. FRUSTRATINGLY dumb mistake. (Monday, I went to Van's and bought more angle. Once I recovered my calm, I went on to make the nutplate brackets and MCS as called out.

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