I was so pleased that on Friday Id managed to complete the bonding of the wing
pin sockets onto the fuselage sides - I had used high-power resistors clamped
to each socket and fed from bench power supplies to bring the temperature of the
metal parts up to 50C so that the Redux cured in 4 hours instead of 5 days,
thus avoiding the need to find a warm and safe place to leave the entire
aeroplane
assembled for a week.
However, when I came to drill the bolt holes through the fuselage hard-points
today,
I find that despite marking orientations and making several checks, I have
managed to bond on the port W26 assembly upside-down - that is, with the small
(3/16) bolt hole at the top instead of the bottom.
Racking my brains about how to recover from this stupid mistake, I came up with
3 options.
(1) Leave it as it is and use the hole at the top. I pretty soon realised this
is no good, as the head of the bolt would foul the head of the pip-pin.
(2) De-bond the socket with large amounts of heat and do the whole alignment
process
again, including re-making the shim. This does not appeal for lots of reasons!
(3) Drill a new 3/16 hole at the bottom of the W26 flange, taking care to
position
it correctly.
At the moment I cant see any down-side to option 3; can anyone offer any
comments
one way or the other?
in friendship
Rowland
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