Brief Description: Static system make up then installation
After laying out as per the instructions, the pitot static air system and making and sourcing the necessary parts I began the installation by first marking points along the inside of the fuselage for the ports, mountings, clip mounts and line routing, on the outside along the longeron towards the panel I spaced and marked 8 points that were drilled and countersunk for the clips to secure the line.
Most of the clip mounts coincided with the keeper rivets put in by the factory and postioned between the rivet holes in the longeron every few spaces, I just drilled these out and immediately replaced them with the clip on the inside and a slightly longer rivet to secure the clip permanently. I did this all along the longeron and in the cabin with a planned routing under the panel and up through a channel on the subpanel. Once all the clips were in place I began the installion of the main line, having previously installed rubber hose - which I much prefered for it's toughness and flexibility and due to many complaints about the PP clear hose over time....but by request I removed the rubber hose and installed the stock PP lines in the clips as per the routingI planned.
I also installed the first of the two ports on either side of the bulkhead F-707 by drilling out to final size my pilot holes completed previously, and then partly setting the rivet as a port before driving the mandrel out of the rivet with another mandrel to creat the open port with the shop head just long enough to slide the tubing over.
