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Paul's Zenith 601-XL
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Date:  9-6-2007
Number of Hours:  1.00
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Brief Description:  Pulled nose skin in place

Well, I am back after 2 months of holiday. I missed working on the plane, but had fun doing other thing. Unfortunately, I come back to a BIG PROBLEM. I pulled the nose skin in place on the upper surface and ran into an alignment issue. The rivet lines do not line up and the skins are misaligned at the tip by 5mm. I have taken detailed photos and sent them to ZAC to figure out what is wrong. The wing is straight, with no warps, the ribs are square at the main spar. On the bottom side, the rivet line is straight and lines up perfectly front skin to rear.

The only thing I can figure is that the skins were either mis-drilled at the factory or mis-bent.
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Alignment problem at root - note rivet line does match

Alignment problem at root - note rivet line does match

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At the tip, the rear skin is out of alignment

At the tip, the rear skin is out of alignment

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nose skin is straight - no warp

nose skin is straight - no warp

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