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Buck's RV-8
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Date: 11-4-2013
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Number of Hours: 0.90
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Brief Description: Rear baggage floor revision
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When I began building my airplane, I had grand visions for an integrated remote video camera system. I purchased a remote, two-channel DVR and a couple of "bullet cameras." (One camera was going to be built into the top of the vertical stabilizer, and the other would be on a flex-mount in the cockpit.) With the rise of GoPro cameras in the last couple of years, that plan has been totally rescinded. Unfortunately, I had already hard-wired the plane for the old system, including a mounting location on the right sidewall of the aft baggage compartment where the DVR would be mounted, and notches in the wall for the wiring harness to pass through. There was no way to remove these without leaving unexplained, ugly holes in my baggage wall, so I ordered a new sidewall. (Note that any time you order replacement parts of this kind, they may not be pre-drilled, as in this case.) After some careful measuring, I installed a pair of nutplates and drilled the required mounting holes, and now my baggage sidewall will be pristine and perfect. And I have another part to hang on the Wall of Shame. ;-)
The next project will be similar and related -- but a bit more complex. More soon.
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Original sidewall, with nutplates and notched forward edge.
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The old sidewall and the new one, ready to be drilled.
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New nutplates installed on forward flange of sidewall.
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