Title: Aft Deck, SL000-14 Tailcone Stiffener, prep work
Lots of details over the last couple of days. Rain was in the forecast for the first part of this week, And as I've mentioned, I take my bench grinder with 3m wheels outside for big jobs to try and keep aluminum dust out often shop. So, on Sunday (2 days ago) I finished the edged on a bunch of gussets, seat belt anchors, etc. I also fabricated the spacers and elevator stops required for the aft deck. Yesterday, I finished riveting some misc. stuff on the aft tailcone, so now it's done up to the longerons, except for the rudder stops. Today, I finished match drilling the aft deck to the F-710 & F-711 bulkheads and associated spacers. The main longerons were sticking out about 1/16" aft of the F-712 bulkhead, so I filed them down by hand to prevent any potential interference with the aft V/S spar on down the road. I was going to rivet this all together today, but I'm not real happy with the edge distance on the F-712D elevator stop to longeron interface. I made the stop to print, and the bolt holes common to to longerons are a little too far inbd for my liking. I'm going to remake this part a little wider so that I can get the bolt holes in the center of the longeron horizontal leg. 1/4" should do it. Thats a job for tomorrow. "birddog486" reached out to me on VAF and reminded me that if I was going to do SL-00014 Tailcone Stiffiner, it was a lot easier to accomplish this prior to riveting on the aft deck. I had this kit on the shelf, so I went ahead and completed it. The only hassle was having to dimple new rivet holes where a squeezer wouldn't reach. I've never been able to get a good result with the Cleveland pop rivet dimple set, so I took some time and fabricated a setup so that I can dimple with a rivet gun on low pressure. Nothing complicated about it, just a piece of brass round stock with a hole drilled in the end to accept a dimple die, and a matching setup in the end of a beat up brass tip set that I've had in my tool box for a while.


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