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Date:  10-17-2010
Number of Hours:  5.00
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Brief Description:  Rebuilt Left Aft Fuselage Skin

Well, after spending the time to redo the bulkheads, it gave me time to think about a few issues I had with the aft left skin. As mentioned on a previous post, the skin shifted slightly when I drilled the top longeron. That meant the centerline seam would be skewed a bit (about .030) this is not enough to warrant a redo on it's own, but I also noticed that the aft bulkhead holes were slightly not in allignment. This is because I had not properly held the bulkheads in proper fuselage station alignment during drilling. As a result, the holes were bowed by about .15 inches. Although this is mostly an asthetic issue, I decided to redo the skin since it was going to bother me.
It turns out that this skin went much better than the first, apparently the new bulkhead shape was about right because the skin fit pretty well.
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New skin blank rough cut and pre-bent

New skin blank rough cut and pre-bent

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Showing fit of skin before drilling in.  This was the problem area on the old bulkheads

Showing fit of skin before drilling in. This was the problem area on the old bulkheads

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Left aft skin in porcupine mode

Left aft skin in porcupine mode

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