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Date:  11-28-2021
Number of Hours:  6.90
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Brief Description:  More Flooring and Hinges & Misc items

I continued on the flooring tonight. I made pass through clearances and grommets for the wires used for the flap system. The AOA wires come up behind the right floor panel so I cleared a little away in order to get those through. The left panel has the flap position sensor and flap motor power wires coming through which I used a split grommet to give them protection.

I then continued to work on the hinge and got it riveted to the left rear floor panel. There are ahout 3 rivets that go into the right floor panel but will not be inserted until the floors are riveted in permanently.......unfortunately this is NOT that time! I riveted the hinge to the seat as well. I measured and made the seat hinge pins that slide in from the center of the seat left and right to secure it. I installed the seat in place and it works perfectly!

I continued forward with the flooring. In the course of doing so I found some little "oversights" that had been done when I was working on the floors (years ago!) and some I attribute to my blunder and others are part of "hey...try to figure out what has and hasn't been done on a quickbuild kit" that you go through in the process. All in all I found I had forgot to transfer two holes on the rear floor panel where the footwell panels attach.....so I did those. I also noted that there were four nutplates on the angles for the seat ramp which I installed. Finally the footwell panel was sitting funky and when I investigated I found that two nutplates I had riveted on the panel that were supposed to be riveted on the floor angle....so I drilled them out and re-installed them in the proper place......a good work and re-work session!
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Flap Motor/Sensor wire grommet

Flap Motor/Sensor wire grommet

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GIB seat and floors in place

GIB seat and floors in place

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PIC Seating Flooring in progress

PIC Seating Flooring in progress

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