Baffle On!!
Bill came over tonight and helped me rivet the rear baffle on the tank. It went extremely well and the tank fit perfect on the spar. All the holes lined up dead on. (A testement to Dan C's method of doing the z-brackets.)

Having two people do the tank was almost a must for me. I have twice as many rivet holes as a standard tank. I put a bead of proseal on using a 60cc syringe, slid the baffle in place, cleco'd every hole on one side and every other hole on the other. Bill dabbed proseal in the holes, I stuck rivets in and squeezed them. We finished off by putting the z-brackets in. MAKE SURE YOU CHECK ALIGNMENT. I managed to mismark a couple of brackets. I started to rivet them on and then decided I better set the tank up on the spar just to make sure... yep.. it was on backwards. Caught it early. I can't imagine having to take one off and redo it.




(Time: 3 hours x 2 people)
- posted by Matthew @ 5/10/2004 10:19:13 PM