Fuselage – Baggage floor – Preparing parts
Prepared parts for the first two pages of the section. It feels like it takes ages to get everything deburred and ready for assembly. Did a little bit every day over last weeks. All up spend about 6 hours.
Month: October 2015
Fuselage – Baggage floor
Started the Section 21. It looks like this is the largest section in the fuselage construction with a lot of small components. Prepared the baggage floor panes and dimpled them.
Fuselage – Center Section – Riveting
Completed deburring of F-1204D Center Section Aft Bulkhead and riveted it to the F-1204 Center Section Assembly along with the smaller bits and pieces. The pneumatic squeezer I purchased recently on ebay turned out to be useless on rivets longer than 470AD4-7 So …
Fuselage – Center Section – More Drilling
Continued with the match drilling the thick aluminium center section. God bless air-drills! They make this job much easier and faster. I cant imagine how some people do it with just battery operated drills. Anyway, drilling, countersinking and dimpling is …
Fuselage – Center Section – Drilling
Drilled holes in the Center Section using F-1204D Center Section Aft Bulkhead as a guide. Drilled and clecoed around half of them, then removed the assembly from the bottom skin. Will continue drilling on the bench in more comfortable position.
Fuselage – Center Section
Finally started working on the fuselage. Deburred the assemblies Installed platenuts and retainers. While installing retainer on the assembly(Step 3 Page 20-02) found that the hole are dimpled slightly and it wouldn’t let the nut and the washer sit properly. …
Fuselage kit has arrived
I have ordered it in early June. It took over 4 months to get it put together and delivered to my doorsteps. I need to be more proactive next time and order the wings and finishing kit when I roughly …