Saturday, January 19, 2013

January 20th, 2013

Managed to get everything rearranged so that I could fit the Van back in the garage. With the fuse on sawhorses for the last week or so I haven't been able to. Ran down to Harbor Freight at lunch early in the week and picked up a couple of their large moving dollies. I put the 2x4 stretchers on the saw horses to make them wider, then bungied the dollies to the saw horses. That makes the fuselage easily moveable so I can pack everything back on one side again. This week I worked on match drilling the longerons to the fuselage.  Doesn't sound like much, but it takes a while.  The longerons are 1/8" angle and 15 feet long (give or take a smidge).  There is a hole to drill about every inch. Match drilling the skins to the left longeron. The fuse is upside down at the moment, so this is the left side. The longerons are a single 15 foot section of 3/4 x 3/4 angle 1/8" thick. Takes a while to drill that much. There is one on each side.
From Fuselage
Working down the right side. Clecoes in every other hole. I then went back and drilled the in between holes. \
From Fuselage
Here's the right side done up to the F-904 bulkhead.
From Fuselage
Once it's riveted up to the 904, the longerons are trimmed to length (about 3/4" less than the skin), then the rest of the longerons are match drilled.