Final parts, and disassembly
Hours: 7.1 | Posted in Forward FuselageFinished up the list of remaining tasks on the fuselage: drilled the ends of the floor stiffeners to the firewall & center section angles, filed the gear socket hole cutouts into the center section, cut the holes in the wing root area for the fuel & electrical pass-thrus, fit the baggage wall structure and side panels, and match-drilled any holes that hadn’t previously been done.
With all that done, it was time to take the fuselage apart once more for the deburr/dimple/prime dance. I think taking apart the brake pedals took nearly as long as the whole fuselage–and I only put in half the bolts! I deburred all the solid angle pieces, the small parts, and some of the complicated stuff (ie, anything with tabs and flanges and little bits that need filing and can’t be done with the scotchbrite wheel…). Tomorrow I can hopefully finish up the rest of the deburring; there’s oodles of countersinking to be done as well. It’ll be several weeks now before I can get back to the project for longer than an hour or maybe two.
