The work and pictures from this post are from September 2, 2023.
After trimming the bracket, I wanted to form the upper right edge and make it look better. The upper hole in the flange of the zee looked really weird after I trimmed the material away. Especially, that narrow little strip of material between the edge I cut and the side of the hole. In the first picture, I marked with a sharpie my initial thought to remove material around the hole.
Then, I thought why? Why not use the radius of the hole…..to remove the hole? (The inner sharpie mark).
This picture shows the material removed along the hole’s radius.
To finish up, I removed all the paint previously applied to the bracket (however, the Alodine is still on the bracket). Then, I sanded all the formed edges and zee flanges until they were complete and how I wanted them. Here is the completed upper right corner of the bracket…..
…..looking straight down…..
…..from underneath (with the nutplate rivet holes countersunk)…..
…..and the left edge.
