Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Fuselage Bulkhead



Today I assembled the Fuselage Bulkhead. First I primed all of the components.

I riveted the bulkhead and bulkhead doubler together. I also riveted the tail skid bracket and the attach brackets to the bulkhead. I riveted the platenuts to the bulkhead using the squeezed and pulled rivets called out on the drawings.

I also cleacoed and riveted the hinge brackets and flange bearings to the sides of the bulkhead. The blue tape is marking the location where I need to install some LP4-4 pulled rivets. I was unable to find them in my supplies so I ordered some new rivets from Van's. They will probably be here next week.