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Joe's OneX #129 Project
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Date:  5-6-2014
Number of Hours:  4.00
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Brief Description:  Finished match drilling turtledeck skin to frame.

Finished drilling the turtledeck skin to the formers. Next step will be to remove the skin and debur everything.

Had to use two shims on the top flanges of the second set of formers and two more further down the side on the third set of formers. All-in-all it seems to fit pretty well now after all the modifications. Drilling the formers to the top stringer attach brackets was difficult, hard to reach. I ended up laying the fuselage on its side and bending over into it to reach the brackets. Because I had to fit the formers to the front of the brackets with spacers between them, this required drilling the brackets to the formers from the rear rather than the front. Drilling from the rear was difficult because the skin tapers towards the rear and there was not enough clearance for a regular drill on all the holes so had to use a right angle close quarters drill.

Really glad this job is finished.
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Outside view of turtledeck

Outside view of turtledeck

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Second set of formers

Second set of formers

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Third set of formers

Third set of formers

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