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Buck's RV-8
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Date: 6-5-2010
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Number of Hours: 8.10
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Brief Description: Elevator bellcrank access hatch
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I guess this hatch should technically should be called an ELT/Strobe/Autopilot Servo/Elevator Bellcrank access hatch, because it will allow some visual access to all of those items. Today, I finished the project. I completed the shaping and filing of the cutout, cut all the hinges, stiffener angles and spacer pieces to size, and cut the door down to its finished size. Next, I taped all the components firmly in position and inserted the hinge pins while I back-drilled the hinges. I bent the forward edge of the hatch slightly to get it it seat flush with the baggage floor. Then everything got sanded, cleaned, prepped, primed, dimpled, and riveted. Finally, I bent the hinge pins into the necessary shapes and drilled the "keeper" holes for them in the wall below them.
This project was a nice one to get me going on the project again. I think it will be a very useful modification. Thanks to the guy on VAF from whom I stole the idea! ;-)
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Hatch, assembled. It's held in place with two removable hinge pins.
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The lower end of the pins go into the two small keepr holes in the baggage wall.
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View showing the construction of the hatch and the shape of the pins.
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