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Kupe's Zodiac 650B
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Date:  2-14-2014
Number of Hours:  3.00
Manual Reference:  6-B-11 & 14
Brief Description:  Fuselage Side Skin Fitting & Gear Uprights

Spent probably close to an hour getting all the various parts of the airplane to line up with each other in a level, aligned, and untwisted manner. It was a rewarding effort though as the fuselage side skins popped right into place and just plain fit when I was done.

Once I had everything framed up, I clamped the skins into place and traced the inside of their rear edges with the forward edges of the rear side skins. A few passes each with an olfa knife, the the aft portion of the skin was tailor-fit into position.

Next I match-drilled the two gear upright braces for each side of the fuselage then extended the rivet line down onto each of the gear mounts and drilled them out. Lastly, I ran a rivet line along the top of the gear mount to attach it to the fuselage skin.
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Fuselage side skin trimed and mated to the rear side skin.

Fuselage side skin trimed and mated to the rear side skin.

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Gear uprights attached to the gear mounts and fuselage skin.

Gear uprights attached to the gear mounts and fuselage skin.

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Outside view of the gear mounts drilled out and clecoed to the gear uprights.

Outside view of the gear mounts drilled out and clecoed to the gear uprights.

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