After work, I went out to the shop some this evening to do some more work on the
dog platform. This is one of two extra corregated pieces I had purchased from Vans.
It's the same as the piece which gets screwed to the F-706 bulkhead. Yesterday I
took both sheets to Clare Lutton's place and used EAA9's shear to trim the forward
and aft edges. We have a 48" Niagara foot pedal shear...it did an awesome job.
After roughly marking the curve of the side of the fuselage, I used my die grinder
to trim the sheet off. Man, I love this right angle die grinder. It's effortless to
make cuts like this. Easy to control, too.
What followed was several iterations of fitting and sanding to get the contour fairly
close to the skin. I'll have to trim the corregations away at the outboard edge so that
the flat portions of this panel will lay flat atop the longeron flange.