It felt great to be back working on my airplane. Today marks two weeks since I broke my collar bone and also two weeks since my last entry. I was having major building withdrawls.
I was working on fabricating a door in the back of the baggage compartment that would allow access to the back of the instrument panel.
Today I finished trimming the hole in the back of the baggage compartment bulkhead (used a dremmel with a bit that mills the aluminum away very well - works great!). I then sanded to my satisfaction. I had one place where I got dumb with the dremel and when beyond my marks, but it turned out ok. During my down time I ordered a 2x4 sheet of .032 2024T6 to use as a doubler for my now weakend baggage compartment aft bulkhead and also to fabricate the door itself.
I layed out and cut the opening in the doubler using my dremmel with a fiber cutoff wheel (works great).
Technique: I used the dremmel fiber cutoff wheel to cut the hole leaving about 1/8" inch from my reference lines, then I use the mill end on my dremmel to trim down to about 1/32" and then I sand with emery cloth of other sandpaper to get out to the line. I used this technique on the duckworks landing light holes in the wings and they turned out great!
Trimming the aft baggage bulkhead with the dremmel bit.
Trimming leaves it like the top photo (left edge). Bottom photo right edge is after sanding.
This is the doubler after the opening was rough cut.
