Well yesterday I worked in the shop all evening, but not doing work on the plane. The dang place was a disaster and needed some serious cleaning. You couldn't hardly see the tops of the work benches. I was tired of the mess and having to constantly look for parts and tools so I used the evening to get organized. Today I called in sick to work, but managed to make it down to the shop to put a few last items away. Here's a pic of one of my workbenches. How nice and clean! (I wonder how long that'll last? :-)

Anyway after taking it easy all day I was feeling better, so I headed down in the evening to do some work. I needed to get the F-719B clips drilled to the F-719 stiffeners as well as the firewall stiffeners. I clamped the clip in place, unclecoed the side skin near the top of the fuselage (near the floor) and used my long #40 drill bit to reach up between the skin and the longeron to drill these holes.

Hrm...the holes seem awefully close to the flange of the F-719 stiffener.

Since I had already drilled all three holes in this angle clip, I had to figure out a way to match drill through the clip into the firewall stiffener. After much head scratching, I decided to:

Whew!

While I had the skin peeled back, I noticed that one corner of the F-719B clip was contacting the firewall. Not wanting to get a dent in my firewall...

I sanded then filed it at a 6 degree angle. That looks better!

After repeating the process to drill the F-719B on the right side of the fuselage, I decided to match drill through the side skin through the lower longeron and into the firewall weldments. Again, I did the right side as well.

Next, I opened up the prepunched hole in the F-902 bulkheads to 5/8 inch diameter with a unibit to accept a snap bushing.

I also drilled and dimpled for some K-1000 nutplates that will eventually be installed here.

After that, I started fitting the F-7101L web plate between the auxiliary and lower longerons.

I used a sharpie to mark through the holes from the outside so I could check what edge distance I would end up with. I've heard that others have had edge distance problems here. Looks good, though.

I also noted that between the forward flange of the F-7101 and the F-902, there is a slight gap. I think I'll need to make a shim here.