Fuselage construction starts
Time to get going on the fuselage. The first step is to gather up all of the parts for the firewall. All of the stiffeners are clecoed to the firewall and some brackets and spacers are fabricated then match drilled. I ended up fabricating the large lower brackets twice because I didn’t position them correctly when match drilling them. They are supposed to be fitted directly up next to the angle on one side, but not so on the other side. They are supposed to be spaced 3/32″ off of the bottom angle. There was enough material in the kit to make a second set of brackets, but I’ll come up short later I’m sure. All of the firewall parts have been match drilled.
I’m not using the standard firewall recess. I’m making a flat filler panel out of stainless stock. That stuff is a trick to cut and deburr… Next up is to deburr, dimple, and machine countersink all of these parts.
