Thursday, December 19, 2019

Fuselage, FWD/MID Side Structure (Part 36)

Here are the nine parts after the Akzo primer has dried.....now, let’s rivet stuff.

To begin, the three MS21055L08 nutplates were installed on the F-01405F Brace using two AN426AD3-3 rivets.  This is the aft side.....

.....and the forward side.

This is the diagram from the plans on how to put all these pieces together.

The picture below show the four total pieces....three you can see and one you can not (F-01405H Shim).  The F-01405F Brace is the biggest piece.  The row of rivets in the front of the picture (rear as it is installed on the plane) are 11 AN470AD4-5 attaching the F-01405J to the Brace.  The back row of 11 AN426AD3.5 rivets are attaching the F-01405K Guides to the Brace (with the F-01405H Shims in between).  All of these rivets were set with my pneumatic squeezer.  This picture shows the manufactured head of the rivets.....

.....and this one shows the shop head side of the rivets.

These two pictures only show one side of the Brace.  The other side was completed using the same parts, pieces and rivets.

That was all the work I was able to accomplish tonight, so I will start here during the next session.