Brief Description: Center floor cover angle channel, part 1
As you recall from 22 May, I had not given myself enough slack to let the wiring round the 90-degree turn at the junction between the cockpit floor and the firewall. Instead of trying to fish more slack out the wire runs (and introduce more stress), I decided to just create more room for the wiring.
I fabricated a 45-degree channel from scrap aluminum. This 45-degree channel consists of two sides each cut as a right triangle with 3" legs and a 4.25" hypotnuse. Yes, this means I got to actually apply Pathagoream's Theorum (although I guess I could have just used my angle to draw a right triangle with 3" legs, then connect the ends, but that would be too easy...sheesh!).
I riveted these together with AN426-AD3 flush rivets, and added two end flanges with screw holes.
I assembled the center cabin cover to the F-982E access cover, then marked the cut lines for my newly fabricated angle channel (image 3).
