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Date:  5-11-2014
Number of Hours:  8.00
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Brief Description:  Canopy Deck Rails, Baggage Bulkheads

I started off by cutting and bending the hinge pins for the seat backs. I then riveted the canopy decks to the longerons. It was quite challenging and I still have one rivet that is not fully driven and I can't seem to get to it. I managed to buck the same rivet on the left side, but the ride side rivet is eluding me. I may give it another shot another day, but I think I tried for an hour today using everything from squeezer yokes to the pin from a trailer hitch as a bucking bar-nothing fit.

Pete and Kecia stopped by to check out my progress. We grabbed some lunch and then Pete and I worked on the plane. I had taken a break last week before trying to lay out the upper baggage bulkhead cut lines. Pete and I broke out a calculator and crunched some numbers using the 3/16 scale inset drawing on the plans. We cut a piece of cardboard as a template (cheaper than jacking up the bulkhead) and drew the curves. It didn't come out as well as we would have liked. Pete looked at it for a second and drew the curve freehand. He cut the cardboard and then folded it in half and traced the curve on the opposite side and cut it. We held the cardboard in place in the baggage compartment and it was perfect. Thanks, Pete!

I traced the cardboard template onto the aluminum and cut it using snips. I marked the holes for the screws and drilled them to #40. Ginger held the piece in place and I drilled the bulkead to the F706 (I think that's the right number-too tired to look at the plans). I then drilled them out to #30 and removed the bulkheads and clecoed and drilled the K1000-08 platenuts in place. I drilled the center holes out to #19 and called it a night. Tomorrow, I hope to debur the holes and install the platenuts. I'm not on call this week, so hopefully I can make some headway.
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Seat Pins Cut & Bent

Seat Pins Cut & Bent

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Canopy Deck Riveted

Canopy Deck Riveted

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Template & Upper Baggage Bulkhead

Template & Upper Baggage Bulkhead

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