Joshua's RV-9A Project

Finished the step install today: fit and drilled the right step to the fuselage, then drilled the plastic block to the rib and to the step tube.  I also fabricated a spacer for the plastic block on the left tube that ended up slightly short, then drilled it in place, and drilled the block to the step.  Finally, I fabricated some doublers for the side skins on both sides, to add some stiffness and take care of my too-large hole on the right side (though it turned out that there were no edge-distance problems, and it probably would have been fine without the doublers.)  I essentially copied the step doublers that Scott Card installed…it just seems like a good idea to have a doubler there, since the skin is bearing the entire weight of the person on the step, and the step is also acting as a lever.

Steps are complete with the exception of one thing…due to the spacer on the left block, the called-out bolts are too short, and will need to be replaced with AN3-13A’s (of which I have no spares…will need to order some).

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