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Date: 6-27-2010
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Number of Hours: 0.25
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Manual Reference: 8-28
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Brief Description: Drilling Fuselage Skins #8 (Part 2)
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....continued from part 1.....
*****THIS IS WERE THINGS GOT MESSED UP. THE WAY THE INSTUCTIONS ARE WRITTEN, WHEN YOU CLEKO THE SEAT SUPPORT TO THE BACK PLATES, THE BACKPLATE PULL AWAY FROM THE SIDES, BUT YOU DON'T SEE THAT BECAUSE THE COCKPIT RAILS COVER IT UP. THE RESULT IS WHEN YOU USE THE HOLES IN THE SUPPORT TO DRILL UP THROUGH THE SPACER AND COCKPIT RAILS, THE SUPPORT IS INBOARD OF WHERE IT SHOULD BE. WHEN THE DRILL BIT CAME UP THROUGH THE COCKPIT RAIL, I NOTICED IT WASN'T IN LINE WITH THE OTHER HOLES AND HEARD A FAINT WARNING BELL IN THE DISTANCE IN MY BRAIN, BUT TOLD MYSELF THAT MUST BE BY DESIGN BECAUSE THINGS ARE JUST GOING SO SMOOTH....THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE SO WELL WRITTEN....I WISH I LISTENED TO THAT BELL BETTER! ANYWAY ONCE I DRILLED THE HOLES OUT TO #19 FOR SCREWS IS FINALLY WHEN THE WARNING SIREN REALLY STARTED BLARING. THE EDGE DISTANCE ISSUE WAS QUITE NOTICABLE AT THAT POINT. I IMMEDIATELY PUT DOWN THE TOOLS AND WENT IN TO DO THE RESEARCH I NORMALLY WOULD'VE DONE, AND WOULDN'T YOU KNOW IT...AS BIG AS DAY, THERE IT WAS...A KNOWN PROBLEM SINCE 2008!!! I SURE WISH VAN'S WOULD UPDATE THIER INSTRUCTIONS...I BOUGHT MY KIT IN 2009.
i'LL BE CALLING THEM FIRST THING MONDAY. WORST CASE SCENARIO LOOKS LIKE I'LL NEED TO ORDER NEW COCKPIT RAILS, SPACERS, BACKPLATES, AND A NEW SEAT SUPPORT. THIS BUILDING SESSION TURNED INTO AN EXPENSIVE ONE. LIKE I SAID IN THE FIRST SENCTANCE OF THIS STORY... THE DAY STARTED OFF GREAT!!!
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