| Yesterday was spent doing taxes, or rather avoiding taxes, For the 1st time, I am paying No Fed or State income tax, zip, zero, |
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| nada!!! Well, back to airplane building, Reassembled and riveted together all of the Fude understructure, Additionally, I |
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| replaced the WD-1002L weldment, the top flange ended up being too close to the edge and it worried me, Called Van's and had |
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| them send a replacement, I drilled the old one off, and re-riveted the new one on, It actually went quicker than I thought, Then |
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| re-drilled the top, bottom and side flanges, only this time I put a clamp on the top and bottom to bring them in closer to avoid |
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| getting close to the edge again, worked like a charm. I also made a modification to the Step attachment, based on a note I saw |
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| on Matronics about someone noticing the the steps seems 'loose and with too much give in them. It consisted of taking the |
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| outboard baggage ribs off and drilling out the fwd and aft most rivets that attach the plate to the rib, and then fashioning, some J |
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| stiffeners, priming them and then re-riveting them and the attach bracket to the ribs, I don't know if it will help, but it certaintly |
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| won't hurt. The last item on this page is to re-cleco all of the skins back on the fude preparatory to riveting them, |
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