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Yesterday, I picked up my parts from the powder coater. They came out
great. I went ahead and had the seat belt brackets re-powder coated since
I had to trim some of them. I also had the brake fluid reservoir powder coated.
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The powder coater I used uses Sherwin Williams powder. Van's uses Cardinal. We
were able to find a color that was a pretty good match. The bracket on the left is
Sherwin Williams number RAL7047 and the bracket on the right is Cardinal number
T009GR230. They're close enough for my preference.
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I also received my shipment of extra nutplates and screws from Vans. These will
be used to attach the baggage floors. I wish my 5/32 clecos would arrive so I could
do all that drilling and get Brent's nutplate drilling jig back to him.
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In the mean time I decided to work on cutting the holes for the gear leg
weldments to protrude through. Here I've just drilled a couple starter holes
with the unibit.
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After some work with the die grinder and a burr I had the hole roughed out, but
found it difficult to get the weldment to fit through the hole.
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After some investigation, I think I've found the problem. The bolts which hold
the correct spacing between the forward and aft halves of the F-704 bulkhead stick
through the front of the bulkhead. This is handy for temporarily bolting the gear
weldment in place, but it's a problem because the gear weldment can't slide in
along the angle of the gear socket. It's hard to explain, but basically I'm going to
have to remove these spacers to be able to fit the weldments in and out.
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