Friday 22 May 2009

21st May 2009 - Baggage compartment nut plates

Hopefully, that's the end of the nut plates for the moment. First job today was to final fit the right inner overdoor panel which screws onto the "U" in the bottom of the outer panel using 5 spire clips. Then the angles which will support the baggage compartment walls, floor and the rear bulkhead panel were drilled to final size and 10 off #8 miniature nut plates riveted to the various tabs to support them. The tabs were countersunk and the angles dimpled to allow the screws to lie flush with the angles. Once everything was drilled and dimpled the angles were then deburred where they had been rough cut with the angle grinder.
I'm intending to use Correx (polyboard as used for estate agents signs - realtors signs for US readers) for the walls and rear bulkhead. I haven't decided about the floor yet, wood aluminium or a double thickness of Correx are all possibilities. I will need to add an additional cross member two thirds of the way up the rear wall to the baggage compartment to put a joint between two sections of the wall to allow the seat belt cables to enter from their attach points at station 111. This is the approach Vans uses in the RV series aircraft.
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