Tuesday, April 21, 2009

April 5, 2009: Roll Bar Assembly











P. 24-02 Started working on the roll bar assembly. Took care to identify the parts correctly. Reading the forum, I learned that others were having difficulty maintaining the correct separation distance between the base legs. When they fitted to the fuselage it worked but when taking it off the base contracts. I clecoed all the parts together and then final-drill #30. Doing this, I left the roll bar assembly on the fuselage as long as possible to do the match drilling so as to maintain the base leg separation. Just about ran out of the #40 clecoeds but it worked.

Completed match-drilling all #30 holes on roll-bar without problems. Clecoed as I went and when done, fitted back onto structure to see if base legs fit. They did! Stopped here to move to Vertical Stabilizer.

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