| Shifted focus to day and worked on the brakes, but befor doing so, I built a Rick Sked dolly for the Fuse, the old EAA bench that |
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| I was using was just to high, especially for a shorty like me. with a lot of the work after Sec 29 being installation of systems, it |
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| seemed appropriate to lower the working platform some what. Next, I followed Mike Howes approach and installed the Matco |
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| parking brake, http://www.etigerrr.com/Fuselage/section_36_brakelines.htm Drilled off the old attach plate, cut off the flange, |
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| reattached it (basically to plug the holes and stiffen the firewall. Then used the spare F1048 primer bracket and fashioned a |
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| mount out of it, match drilled it to the Fuse, dimpled firewall, installed AN3 nutplates to hold the Matco valve, primed the bracket, |
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| then riveted the assembly to the firewall. I needed to make a run to AERO ZONA for some straight AN fittings to replace the |
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| angeld ones, and then proceeded to bend the Al tubing. I found another mistake, I installed the nutplates to hold the clamps for |
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| the brake line son the WRONG side of the ribs, I thought about drilling them off and switching them, but the dimples are already |
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| there and it would be ugly, i experimented and found that by using a couple of washers on the #8 screws I could install the |
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| clamps and get a gutenteit fit with them on this side (WHEW!). There is another section of brake line that rins from the fwd ribs |
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| out to the landing gear and exist the bottom skin, but I need to wait until th egear is installed before that, it looks pretty simple |
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