Sunday, March 12, 2017

Attaching more fabric attachment plates

Today we attached two fabric attachment plates that go over the rear lift-strut attach brackets.  There are already two holes drilled in the bracket, and we had to precisely match the holes in the fabric plates to the brackets.  To do this, a hole on one side of the fabric plate was fastened in place temporarily with a cleco.  We then used our newly created strap-locator tool to locate and drill the second hole to guarantee that it lined up with the pre-existing holes in bracket.  We repeated this process for the second fabric plate on the other lift-strut bracket.  We then cleaned, epoxied and riveted the two fabric attachment plates on the left wing.  The picture shows Michael riveting one of the plates after epoxy was applied.  Hours: 1.5
Michael riveting on a fabric attachment plate


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