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I used the sander to round the profile of the tank attach bracket for the side where it
attaches to the fuselage.
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Then made the rough cuts to match the curvature of the inboard rib on the tank.
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This sander rocks! It was definitely worth the money. It's saved me tons of time.
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The tank attach bracket fits nicely into the rib.
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Here's the pair of brackets. Schweet!
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Kody was over and I got him to help me with some deburring. He's not used to using tools
so he inadvertently put some notches in the inside edge of these doubler plates. I filed
them out, but they're not completely round anymore. Ah well, it'll be fine.
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I also deburred the plates for the capacitive fuel senders.
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I drew circles up through the prepunched bolt holes in the spar to see where they would
fall on the Z brackets. The were all right on center except for the inboard most bracket.
This looks good, though. I drew an extra line along the flange of the bracket to show where
the web is. Then I set a bolt in place right next to one of the circles so I could see
how the hex head of the bolt would clear the web. Considering there's about a 1/16" radius
at the web-to-flange transition, I don't think the bolt should be any closer than this.
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I drilled one hole at the center (lengthwise) of each of the Z brackets and used it to cleco
the brackets to the baffle. Then I lined up the lengthwise centerline of the Z brackets by
sighting through the prepunched baffle holes. Once all that was lined up, I simply transfer
drilled through the baffle into the Z brackets.
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I marked a vertical centerline on the fuel filler flange and centered it up on the hole in
the skin. It's held in place with duct tape on the back side.
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After drilling the holes, I had to pop the cap in to see what it would look like. I'm glad I
went with the upgraded fuel filler caps. The polished look is really nice.
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Here's what it looks like from the inside after drilling all ten attach holes.
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To set the tank on the spar with all the Z brackets attached meant that I needed to move the
clecos around to the inside of the tank. So I uncleco-ed part of the skin...
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...and moved the 1/8 clecos around to the inside of the tank. No the won't hold the tank up...
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...when I set it on the spar. Here I've got a strap clamp pulling the tank to the spar to
close up the gap between the tank skin and the main skin.
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It's a reasonably tight fit now, but it also takes quite a bit of force to pull the tank down
to close up the gap.
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I match drilled all of the Z brackets by back drilling through the spar.
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