Brief Description: Riveted on rear panel and some brackets.
Well this is about it for the hat shelf project for now. I got the rear panel in place and riveted. You can see it in the second picture quite clearly with the primer on. Covers the holes very well. I will say that it adds a lot of rigidity to the tailcone, I was quite surprised. This little side project may even add some additional support in a roll over.
I clecoed the forward bulkhead support and my shelf rails and cross member back into polace for now. I also put the shelf on to get a good look at the final setup. Looks good! I'm leaving the final attachment of the shelf and remaining rails until the fuselage attach part so I don't have any problems with that. I can't do the forward bulkhead cover and door until that point anyway.
One other thing, I weighed most of the parts as I went and figure this adds about 4-5 lbs to the empty weight with most of that being in the .025 sheet.
Here is the template with the final piece. Perfect fit!
Rear panel riveted in place.
Bulkhead support and shelf in place. Good look at what the finished product will look like.
