Showing posts with label firewall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label firewall. Show all posts

Friday, October 31, 2014

Firewall

Riveted and bolted the firewall onto the fuselage. Still have to torque the bolts, and waiting for two more bolts from ACS. More bolt collisions, have to put 4 bolts the other way.



Thursday, October 30, 2014

Upper firewall and windshield strip

Deburred, primed and riveted together the upper firewall and wind shield strip. I used bucked rivets because I wanted it totally flush. The main difference between flush bucked rivets and flush pulled rivets is that flush bucked rivets are flush.

Figured out on odd thing. I have previously been testing primers and how well they withstand different liquids, such as acetone and silicone remover etc. Seems like only epoxy primer is able to do this. On the firewall I cut my finger and spilled some blood. Easy match for acetone or silicone remover I thought, but neither of them had any effect whatsoever on dried blood. Who would have thought ?




Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Fuselage and firewall

Riveted and bolted together the fuselage. Now I have a whole aircraft fuselage in my shop, not just a bunch of pieces. Drilled the upper firewall to the wind shield holder, which was rather confusing regarding directions.




Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Fwd Fuselage

These angle-things for the firewall required massive trimming. They all needed to be straightened up because the angle was off on either side, then lots of trimming of the edges. When that was done they fitted perfectly.