Category Archives: Cockpit

Cockpit and Cable Anchor

Hours this entry: 3.5
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Today I fabricated the F-864E-1 cable anchor from the blank angle stock.

I cut it length first. I made sure I took extra time to measure out all the dimensions a few times.

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After cutting, drilling and cleaning it up with Scotchbrite.
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Match drilled to the Throttle assembly.
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In addition to the cable anchor, I started work on match drilling the Bulkhead caps and right side console.

Fuel Valve, nutplates, etc

Hours this entry: 3.5
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Fabricated a bracket for the Andair fuel valve. Instead of nuts on the backside, I used nutplates.

Also spent quite a bit more time than anticipated installing the nut plates for the left and right covers.

Not many pics, just this of the fuel valve plate.

Cockpit Floors part 2

Hours this entry: 3.5
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Only a single picture, but more work on the cockpit floors today.

Got all the stiffeners fit and match drilled. Put the seatback hinge in place and match drilled. Fit a spacer for the hinge between the floorboards where they overlap, so that it doesn’t bend the hinge.

Now I can take the floorboards, prime the underside along with the stiffeners before they get back riveted on.

Also riveted the footwells together. The longeron yoke worked great for all but 8 rivets, so those had to be bucked with the gun and bar.

Cockpit Floor work

Hours this entry: 4.5
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Finished match drilling most of the floor boards, and started adding the nuteplates inside the fuse.

I found the best way to set the nutplates was to put the screw in from the back side, one cleco in the hole, drill the first hole and then swap the cleco.

  

The nutplate for the Flap Bearing Blocks was a huge pain. Extremely hard to get a countersink in. Wish someone had a better solution for this.

Rear Seat Riveting

Hours this entry: 1.5
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Started riveting the rear seat.  Had a few problems with the rivets around the top curve, but ended up getting them bucked OK. Just need to finish riveting the hinge on the bottom and it’s done.