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Date:  3-14-2015
Number of Hours:  2.10
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Brief Description:  MLG Covers, flange and disasters

Inverted fuselage.

Drilled MLG Cover screw holes through Cover and flange, reamed to 3/16".

Broke away Cover and trimmed flange. Bit wobbly, but usable. Removed sticks and cleaned up bondo.

Made an initial trim, then placed MLG Stut over flange and marked for clearance cutline around tabs. Discovered some screw holes conflict with cutline. Bugger.

Fitted one nutplate using brake rivet tool and thought it looked loverly. [Timewarp 16MAR2015: The plans are spectacularly unhelpful with how to do this, just says squeeze them with multigrips. Experience shows the best results need a method, if I knew this I would have researched more, maybe watched some EAA videos which have been helpful in the past]

Go to inspect Inner Cover and discover it is stuck fast to the chipboard. THE MELAMINE IS ONLY ON ONE SIDE, THE ONE I'M LOOKING AT!

Foam peeled off the fibreglass, but stuck fast to the chipboard. Layup was hopeless, the resin seems to have been hoovered up by the chipboard. Not only did the fibreglass peel easily off the foam, but it was easy to separate the plies as well. Hmmmmm. Will try the multiple layup concept one more time
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Drilling Cover attachment holes

Drilling Cover attachment holes

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Screwing into my first nutplate

Screwing into my first nutplate

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Hmmmm. The fibreglass is supposed to stay on the foam, not the peel ply...

Hmmmm. The fibreglass is supposed to stay on the foam, not the peel ply...

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