RV14 Build August 2
Aft Fuselage
All the replacement parts for the aft fuselage lower aft skin came in so i prepped them for primer, primed, and started the repairs.
I forgot to order rivets to build this bulkhead so Im stopped dead in my tracks again!!
My "snowman" drill holes that need to be fixed
View of the old one.
View of the New one, looking O so good!
Front end of the new one, runs the whole length of this section.
Getting ready to rivet. No pictures of that, but we got it installed.
I forgot to order rivets to build this bulkhead so Im stopped dead in my tracks again!!
Or am I! When I was as Oshkosh I was talking with one of the vans engineers about my poor drilling out of the j stiffener rivets when I was drilling out the aft lower skin. He urged me to replace the whole stiffener rather than splice in a new one or build a doubler. I was apprehensive since drilling rivets is what caused most of the damage Im now repairing, but i decided I needed to learn to do that better and took his advice. It worked perfectly. Removed the old one with almost no issues and installed the new one once the paint dried, with Matts help on the rivet gun again!
My "snowman" drill holes that need to be fixed
View of the old one.
View of the New one, looking O so good!
Front end of the new one, runs the whole length of this section.
Getting ready to rivet. No pictures of that, but we got it installed.
Aft Fuselage Man Hours 8.0
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