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Buck's RV-8
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Date: 9-24-2007
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Number of Hours: 3.10
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Brief Description: ELT mount; strobe mount; static ports/lines
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When I installed the ELT mount on the left side of the aft fuselage, I made a decision that was to have a big impact on this otherwise simple job. I installed 5 platenuts directly adjacent to the five holes for the blind rivets that would attach the angle to the longeron. Unfortunately, that left me very little room to actually get the rivets in there. Yesterday, I tried every method and every tool I had, to no avail. Today, I bought a smaller pop-rivet tool and ground it down so it would fit in the small gap between the platenuts and the fuselage skin. It worked. I did, however, bleed on my work today. Long story, which I won't tell here...
After finishing the ELT attach angles, I finished riveting the strobe mounting plate together. It's done and ready to mount at a future time.
Next, I cleaned, dimpled and primed the four skin holes for each static port, and countersunk the ports themselves. (Dimpling the skin by myself was fun: eight trips in and out of the aft fuselage to insert and remove the pop-rivet dimpler tool...)
Finally, I cut and connected the static lines that arc over the top of the bulkhead.
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I had to file down the pop-rivet tool to get it in there.
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The backside of the strobe power-pack mounting plate, showing the platenuts and stiffeners.
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The static lines are ready to connect.
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