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Kupe's Zodiac 650B
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Date:  6-4-2013
Number of Hours:  1.50
Manual Reference:  6-W-8, 6-W-9
Brief Description:  Flap Hinge Drill Out, Pitot/Static Tube Install

Drilled out the flap hinge which involved aligning the piano hinge on the lower side of the flap with the lower edge of the rear channel and drilling through the pilot holes in the bottom rear skin. Spanwise alignment was critical too to ensure the flap and the aileron don't interfere with each other. Tomorrow I'll updrill to A5 (final) rivet size.

Installed the pitot/static tube by transposing the measurements of the 50mm x 50mm steel plate the tubes are welded to onto the outside of the bottom rear skin. The plate will be held in place by 4 A4 rivets, two of which are attached to the #5 rear rib. Once the measurements were in place, I drilled out a center hole in the middle of the square drawn onto the wing skin, elongated it slightly with a Dremel (to fit the two tubes better), and then drilled through the plate into the skin and (where appropriate) #5 rib for future riveting.
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Left flap drilled out. Fits next to the aileron with the requisite 5mm spacing between them.

Left flap drilled out. Fits next to the aileron with the requisite 5mm spacing between them.

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The pitot/static tubes attached to the #5 rib. The plate will be under the wing at final installation

The pitot/static tubes attached to the #5 rib. The plate will be under the wing at final installation

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The left tiedown ring after elongating the slot it fits through.

The left tiedown ring after elongating the slot it fits through.

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