| John Ackerman came ovre for a short visit Sunday, and during his visit I noticed 2 rivets on the underside of the Right wing that |
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| were LOOSE! I marked them with a Sharpie, and Today I went back at them with the rivet gun and a bucking bar. Fortunately, |
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| they were both close to the wing root and could be reached through the root rib. then spent some time on the prop spinner close |
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| outs, With the prop mounted, it was clear I didn't have the cutouts shaped with equal clearance around the prop blades, I also |
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| didn't have the space/gap between the close-outs and the spinner uniform. I also had a few of the nutplate rivets on the spinner |
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| hib flange that were sticking up a bit, additionally the aft end of the close outs were not flush with the aft of the spinner. A little |
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| Dremel, file, and sandpaper later and everything if now fixed. On the bottom of the cowl in the center position on the firewall |
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| flange, I needed to install a #8 nutplate to hold the stiffernersupport for the aft close-out for the nose gear leg slot. It was a bit of |
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| a bugger to get the 2 rivets bucked, but some persistence paid off. The lower cowl to firewall,gap/seam was too close at the |
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| lower corners on each side, so, with Judy's help we removed the lower cowl and filed and sanded those portions for a more |
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| uniform seam. I taped this edge w/ duct tape, reinstalled the lower cowl and the applied some Metal Glaze to the rivet line. there |
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| was a slight difference between the cowl and the fuse skins, and this filled the rivet depressions and brought the fuse skin flush |
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