Brief Description: Fit right step and starded fuel tank mounts
Bent and trimmed and fit the right step. The right step went faster than the left, but it still took lots of work. In the end, I'm pretty happy with the fit and aligment of both steps. Not sure what I'm going to use for rivets just yet. I don't like looks of the AN470 universal head rivets called out in the plans. Seems a shame to have flush rivets everywhere else, and then to install the steps with universal head rivets. I read one post where some problems were encountered after a few years use with flush head rivets working loose. Make parts for the front fuel tank mounts (that attach to the sides of the fuselage. Took a couple tries to get the complicated angles right of the F-796-B s. Glad I ordered some extra aluminum angle from Vans.5/25/06 update:I finally decided to use AN426 5- flush head rivets to mount my steps. So that the countersink won't leave a knife edge in the step mounting plate to shear the rivets, I'll modify them to have heads sized the same as -4 (1/8") rivets. Couldn't find any of these from the sources on the web, so I'll just make the 24 or so that I'll need out of standard AN426 number 5 (5/32") rivets. By the way, I also had the steps chrome plated! Look pretty neat huh...
