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Date:  1-3-2006
Number of Hours:  28.00
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Brief Description:  Final left tank rib prep

Tonight was a good illustration of the first unwritten rule of finishing an airplane in your basement. Try to do at least 15 minutes of work every night and you will eventually finish. Tonight, a Monday after the holidays, I was innundated at work. I got home bone tired and only wanted to plop down in my easy chair and veg out. However, I remembered the 15 minute rule and went down in the basement, intending to do only 15 minutes of rib prep. The more I worked, the better I felt, until I had completed almost 3 hours of work.I used sand paper to rough up the places on the inside of the tank skin where the ribs will be prosealed. Even though I previously roughed up the rib flanges, they looked a little weak, so I hit them again with sand paper, cleaned everything up with MEK and then clecoed the tank together for (hopefully) the last time before riveting.While clecoing in the last (outboard) rib, I noticed that the little tank vent holder that I riveted to the fuel tank cap flange, was riveted to the trailing edge side of the fuel tank cap instead of the leading edge side, as shown on the plans. SHOOT! After some study, I am going to leave it there and bend the fuel vent line around to that side of the fuel cap. it is a little higher in the tank any way (which is good). An extra two bends and a few more inches of tank vent line will not hurt the tank. Trying to drill out two rivets and resetting them in cured proseal could be a losing proposition.
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