The wooden spacers are exactly the size of the slightly thicker wing-spars. However as an extra check I verified with test gauges if the spar entry is the correct size.
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Category: 30 – Fuselage
Installation right side skin
After all preparations the side skin could be riveted in place.
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Alignment fuselage
In the recent days quite some time was spent with aiming for a perfect level fuselage.
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Paint for right skin installation
Priming/painting the skin, gussets and reinforcement plate.
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Match drill holes right skin
The fit of the skin is quite good, the hole alignment as well. However some holes need match-drilling to get a rivet through.
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CF-PLT-007 right
Since the right wing spar is slightly thicker the holes in CF-PLT-007 needed to shift a little bit compared with the design of the left side.
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New gussets
The improved / larger gussets were machined for the right side.
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Main spar carry through holes
Drilling the holes for the main spar carry through was easy with the drill jig.
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Drill jig CAD/CAM
To match-drill the holes for the main spar carry through without damaging the original holes I designed a drill jig.
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Right side skin work
Some work had to be done before the skin could be test-fitted with cleco’s.
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