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Apr 30, 2023 6.8 28-14 & 15: Fwd fuse finish up Category: 28: Fwd Fuse
Finally got a chance to prime the final few parts to close out this section. Assembled the fwd seats with a lot of plate nuts.

5/1: before I turned in last night I noticed an error that I made weeks ago. The side skin support has a joggle that is supposed to go behind the bulkhead flange. Seems obvious but I had installed it with the joggle still on the outside. Today I decided to drill out all the rivets in the bottom of side skin support and try to bend it back into place. Got all the rivets out without too much trouble but there was no way it would bend into place. The tip flange of the side support has a relief notch in it but the bottom does not. I decide I would need to cut a small relief notch in the bottom flange too to allow it to bend. Cut a triangle with snips and then drilled the tip and smoothed it all out with a file. Was able to just bend it into place. Looks good. Bullet dodged.

5/2: got the bottom rivets on the right side redone and riveted the F1004K side pa els in place. Flipped the fuselage over to tackle the other side.

5/3: drilled out the left side and fixed the side support skin, then cleco'd everything up for riveting.

5/4; got everything re-riveted tonight. This section is finally done. Shouldn't have been that much work. Just took a while.


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