F-775 Top Skin
I recruited Emiel to come out and help me rivet on the F-775 rear top fuse skin. I crawled inside the tailcone and drive the rivets with the back-rivet set and Emiel bucked from the outside. It actually went very well.... 3 of the rivets need replaced... two of mine and one of his. As usual, Emiel is a great help. TIP: Make sure the bulkhead flange is bent to be parrallel with the skin.. I noticed that in a couple of places the skin was sucked in to the flange where it wasn't exactly bent well. I hoped the skin would pull the flange out... not so.

F-775 skin on!

While back in the tail cone, I went ahead and bolted on the should harness cable and bracket.

F-636 Should harness bracket.

Since I had the subpanel structure cleco'd on, I wanted to start playing with the center post setup to see how it would work. I'm going to run a post from the fuel selector plate up to the sub-panel. I plan on mounting my fuel gauges right above the fuel selector along with the low fuel warning lights, manual trim cable. Probably a few other things I can stick on that post as well, like ELT button, cabin heat, maybe flap switch. A couple of people have indicated that the post will rub on my leg or just be a nuisance. So I put the panel in and dropped the seats in to do some shop flying. In my estimation, it won't be a problem. (FYI, I enjoyed a good 10 minutes just sitting in the plane.... )

(Time: 1.5 hrs)
- posted by Matthew @ 8:45 PM