Today I went over to Lane Aviation to buy some nutplates. Wouldn't you know it, they
were out of stock of the single lug ones. Well my friend, Greg, was nice enough to let
me borrow one of his, so I was able to get this last nutplate installed.
The next task before riveting on all these stiffeners is going to be countersinking
some of the holes to accept CS4 pop rivets. This had the potential to be a tricky task
since some of the holes are between stiffeners and are also only 3/8 inch from the
back face of the firewall. What I decided to do was make a fixed length microstop from
a piece of brass tubing. It took several iterations to get the length exactly right, but
here it is.
It just fits over the countersink bit as screwed into my right angle drill
When the bit stops countersinking, you're done. Works great on scrap pieces so far. Hopefully
it'll work just as well on the actual stiffeners.