Tonight I installed the aft bulkhead, fuel valve bracket and AP servo bracket. Then moved on to the bottom skin. My goal is to not finish the bottom skin install until after I have flared the fuel lines that go in the center below the knee floor boards. This breaks from the order of install per the KAI's. If I am successful, I won't need a special flaring tool that can work in such tight spaces.
Got started by riveting the nutplates and the fuel valve bracket to the aft bulkhead.
Then this gets riveted to the two center ribs but not the outside ones. Also installed the AP brackets at the same time.
Then I installed the snap bushings in the aft bulkhead.
Noticed this deformed or damaged nutplate. Scratch one! Glad I noticed it before riveting it to the skin!
Nutplates and bracket installed on the bottom skin. These were a pain due to the large skin and trying to do three things at once.
Then I installed these screws and all metal locknuts. These are what ends up holding the plastic blocks that secure and orient the fuel lines. Funny thing is that you need a 7/32 wrench for these nuts and that is not a common wrench in most sets. I have a ton of tools though and found one. I did not have a 7/32 deep well socket. I think I let my 7/32 stuff walk off with the RV7 I sold.
Skin all cleco'ed on the sub structure.
Riveted the area around the center channel first along with these gussets and the reinforcement brackets that go under the skin. This starts to really stiffen the whole lower fuse assembly up!
Got the aft section all riveted. Amazingly all the holes align with only a few needing a little nudge. Out of gas for tonight so the front will need to wait till tomorrow.
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